Quotes about music
music half kind
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast. Louis Armstrong
music rocks rock-and-roll
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
music play way
Never play a thing the same way twice.
music play way
Never play anything the same way twice.
music couple blow
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
music people firsts
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
music blow ifs
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
music african-american jazz
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
music memories night
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
music needs
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
music blow jazz
You blows who you is.
music heart jazz
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
music jazz knows
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
music blow soul
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
music inspirational-life live-life
What we play is life.
music men ears
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. Lord Byron
music men ears
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
music country art
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country. Lord Chesterfield
music light play
If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.
music home wings
Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home. Mahalia Jackson
music how-to-love jazz
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
music strong eye
A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.
music sight yelling
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
music song would-be
Without a song, each day would be a century.
music heart chords
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music. Mahatma Gandhi
musical cards development
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. Gavin Bryars
music beautiful running
The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.
music wisdom voice
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. Napoleon Bonaparte
music boys taught
I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose. Norman Wisdom
music argument pleasure
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. Ornette Coleman
music play jazz
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.
music ideas style
The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
music night playing-jazz
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.