Quotes about music
music long people
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. Frank Zappa
music sports guitar
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
music age may
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. Jerome Bruner
music style may
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. Jelly Roll Morton
music years new-orleans
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
music piano feelings
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
music song jobs
I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job. Jeff Beck
music parent radio
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.
music hysteria shapes
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.
music play way
I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
music emotion notes
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind
music guitar woods
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.
musical style fads
Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around. Jerry O'Connell
musical emotion
What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion. Jeremy Jordan
music hands giving
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions. Jean-Paul Sartre
music air voice
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. Georges Bizet
music two america
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable. George Russell
music writing self
I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.
music neither regard
For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other... it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come. Roger Sessions
music people similar slightly tight
G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes. Big Sean
music children produce
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children. Friedrich Nietzsche
music air voice
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
music kenny guitarist
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell George Benson
music cat jazz
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
music play people
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!
music opportunity guitar
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
music everyday get-up
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
music scotch-whisky people
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. George Burns
music important way
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. George Bernard Shaw
music growth ears
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.
musical important printing
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
music art real
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary
music musical hell
Hell is full of musical amateurs.