Quotes about music
music song writing
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. Bryan Adams
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
musician jazz shows
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
music heart important
All music is important if it comes from the heart.
music structure
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
musical theater musical-theater
It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time. Bryan Batt
music song hate
this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die. Bryan Lee O'Malley
music sweet guitar
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words. Bryan Procter
musical grew theater
I grew up doing musical theater. Chris Colfer
musical great-music periods
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period. Chiwetel Ejiofor
music order suffering
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. Chico Hamilton
music beautiful jazz
Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
music play want
At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.
music band jazz
The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
music groove staying
I don't dig staying in one groove.
music blue play
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did. Chick Corea
music mean people
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
music play wells
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton. Chet Baker
music player thinking
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau. Chet Atkins
music guitar limits
Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.
music thrive predictable
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
music play long
It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.
music ideas style
...Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ...
music done being-me
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
music thinking important
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make. Chely Wright
music women thinking
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. Cher
music thinking tunes
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. Charles Lamb
music pain italian
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
music cat glasses
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. Charles Baudelaire
music travel men
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
music thinking style
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style. Charlie Hunter