Quotes about music
music mean swings
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Duke Ellington
music dream goal
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
music art intention
There is no art without intention.
music girl piano
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
music important looks
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
music lying tin-pan-alley
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line
music together use
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
music daughter mother
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
music love-is proof
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.
music two jazz
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
music occupation live-by
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
music art opportunity
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
music country expression
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
music writing wish
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ... Dorothy Canfield Fisher
music home games
Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.
music magazines radio
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. Dweezil Zappa
music rocks views
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
music kids levels
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
musical firsts rhythm
Text first, rhythm second, melody third. Claudio Monteverdi
music light important
...Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ... Dolly Parton
music sex essentials
Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
music doors addiction
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
music rocks play
I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
music real kids
My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.
music song hair
I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.
music money poverty
I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
music queens drag
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen
music fake-people practice
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. Diogenes
music powerful ifs
If it's not a hit, switch. Derek Sivers
music believe speech
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech. Debbie Harry
music beautiful ocean
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. Andres Segovia
music guitar color
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices...
music art book
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. Chuck Palahniuk