Music Quotes

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution that's personal to you.

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it. That want to do work, have somebody like Bret Primack, the jazz video guy.

I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

I love all kinds of different music.

I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

If I woke up tomorrow and couldn't do music anymore, I absolutely don't know what I would do.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.