Music Quotes
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.
I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
