Music Quotes
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatever you wish.
Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.
'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.