Quotes about music
musician jazz force
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. Yo-Yo Ma
music calm quiet
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
music simple jazz
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. Yogi Berra
music song giving
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. Rick Wright
music thinking mcdonalds
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. Trent Reznor
music playing-jazz generations
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Toots Thielemans
music teacher light
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. Toru Takemitsu
music passion discipline
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion. Steve Winwood
music eye guitar
If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar. Steve Vai
music guitar play
Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
music somewhere-else watches
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
music creating bars
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.
music strong past
... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...
music guitar light
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
music play together
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band... Vince Gill
music phones creative
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.
music-is be-good
Good music is good music, but it has to be good. Vikram Seth
music piano feelings
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert Green Ingersoll
musical sensual vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. Samuel Johnson
music thinking noise
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
music school play
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool. Sam Bush
musician
I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity. Sade Adu
music people true-beauty
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. Roy Ayers
music stupid simple
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov
music-is
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. Young Jeezy
music-is blanket security
Music is like my security blanket. Yoko Ono
music artist people
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
music listening made
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. Wynton Marsalis
music perfect stories
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
music people tragedy
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
music sound jazz
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
music moments groove
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
music decision splits
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.