Quotes about music
music artist voice
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice. Cassandra Wilson
music singers jazz
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
music school church-choir
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
music careers phases
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
music
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed. Andre Previn
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music boredom people
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Agnes Repplier
musician financial affair
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs Charlie Byrd
music song thinking
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.
music doctors people
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
music mean emotional
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.
music brother django
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.
music design wish
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
music art creative
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. Charlie Haden
music thinking creating
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.
music writing guitar
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent. Charlie Daniels
music voice singing
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same. Charles Dudley Warner
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
music trios sound
The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
music i-like-you mets
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much. Charlie Parker
music play eight
I can play all I know in eight bars.
music art men
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
music thinking play
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
music jazz-and-life boundaries
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
music art men
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
music play born
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
music art reality
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.