Quotes about music
music swings purple
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing. Miles Davis
music men artist
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
music trying hips
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
music play african-american
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
music jazz heroin
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
music understood ifs
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
music men legends
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
music causes quitting
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
music father play
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
music matter kind
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
music museums pieces
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
music looks
Always look ahead, but never look back.
music hype white
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.
music play way
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
music silence framework
Music is the framework around the silence.
music play audience
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
music men should
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
music guitar self
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
music creating
To keep creating you have to be about change.
music guitar idiocy
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. Milan Kundera
music two piano
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
music music-is consolation
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. Marcel Proust
music art moving
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. Joseph Addison
music religious wings
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
music art moving
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.
music nonsense wells
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
music art plato
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.
music religious art
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
music religious indulge-in
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
music mind praise
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
music heaven
All of heaven we have below.
music wisdom heaven
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
music surfing balance
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is... Jorma Kaukonen