Quotes about music
music mean thinking
The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing. David Crosby
music purpose driven
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
music wall hands
Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...
music play dancing
Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.
music years sometimes
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.
music asking band
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
music writing years
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.
music baby writing
You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.
music writing people
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.
music weed art
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. Dave Barry
music song blood
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.
music hate rap
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
music instrumental-music music-is
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized. David Sanborn
musical theatre musical-theatre
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. David Naughton
music cotton clubs
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway
music mind ordinary
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
music moving careers
Death is very often referred to as a good career move. Buddy Holly
music redneck made
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
music play how-you-feel
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel. Buddy Rich
music school one-time
As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.
musician thieves great-music
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
music get-better drumming
You only get better by playing.
musician retiring blues-music
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. Buddy Guy
music country real
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. Bryan White
music country nice
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
music silence quiet
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Bryan Ferry
music firefighter looks
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
music powerful together
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
music moon when-you-love-someone
You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone. Bryan Adams
music song writing
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
music lonely art
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give. Catherine Drinker Bowen
music play sweat
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
music men notes
...some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that... Carlos Santana