Quotes about music
music people top
When people are on top of each other, they have to find a way to escape. Music is a way to escape. John Turturro
music pull takes technology time
When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug/
music musician knows
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. Kurt Vonnegut
music sex order
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."
music religious government
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
music sweet lying
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. John Milton
music people
When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music. Jose Carreras
music pain men
Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain? William Shakespeare
music playing travel
I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music. Brandon Boyd
music philosophical men
The man that hath no music in himself
music until
I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people. Esperanza Spalding
music original pavement reckon
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. Mark E. Smith
music realized
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read. Nicholson Baker
music absolutely-nothing
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. Bela Bartok
music years echoes
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.
musical might different
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. Barry Mann
music son men
Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there B. B. King
music mother source
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.
music being-yourself idols
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
music nice guy
I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy...
music guitar old-friends
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
music workout black
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
music silly parent
Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard. Bill Cosby
music people enough
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. Cecil Taylor
music surrender ifs
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
music jazz-improvisation ability
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
music song fool
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
music book stories
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. Carrie Underwood
music way emotion
There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions. Carl Sagan
music sound wells
Rests always sound well. Arnold Schoenberg
music morning fall
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
music art ifs
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
music real
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming? Bill Vaughan