Quotes about music
music play luxury
The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal. Dan Jenkins
music nice boys
It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys. Damon Albarn
music growing-up growing
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. Damien Hirst
music cheating cat
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating. Count Basie
music feet listening
Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
music night play
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
music real just-being
The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
music play feet
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
music growing-up average
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times. Dudley Moore
music heart way
Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.
musician jazz perfectionist
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians. Dave Brubeck
music color soul
Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
music art loss
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
music want reason
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
music mistake order
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
musician enjoy values
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music. Darren Criss
music structure propriety
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. Confucius
music wisdom art
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
music war appreciated
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
music profound desire
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
music beautiful believe
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.... Dalton Trumbo
musician term
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. Cy Coleman
music angel people
Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls. Cyndi Lauper
music-is affected
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. David Byrne
musician modest amount
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
music song believe
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
music people singing
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
music translate knows
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
music piano keys
Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano. Darryl F. Zanuck
music artist self
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. Dave Matthews
music hell music-is
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
music men wish
...Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head...
music song rain
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.