Quotes about music
musician chance minutes
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute. Keith Jarrett
music art jazz
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. Keith Jarrett
music thinking knows
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. Keith Jarrett
musical composer nations
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation. Ralph Vaughan Williams
music men path
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men. Ralph Vaughan Williams
music writing men
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. Ralph Vaughan Williams
music rocks expression
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. Ralph Ellison
music art men
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion. Ralph Ellison
music two dumb
Two touch the string, The harp is dumb. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music color snakes
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music wine musician
Music and Wine are one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music voice tone
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music speech cures
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music get-better being-me
It gets better and better being me. Liam Gallagher
music thinking people
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste. Les Baxter
music innovation musical
Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter
music guitar play
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world. Les Paul
music guitar wonderful
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive Les Paul
music mother different
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else Les Paul
music thinking guitar
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive Les Paul
music guitar color
Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.? Les Paul
music dream teacher
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown
music salvation music-is
music became my refuge and then my salvation. Lena Horne
musical whether
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke. Reggie Watts
music people
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music. Rachel Platten
music
There's sequences where I'm just like 'man it's like a music video, you could just play some music and you could get into it,' Paul Walker
music
At the end of the day, I think that I'm making music for me as that 12-year-old kid in front of my boombox every day. I try to think about, if I'm that little kid, what would he like? Danny Brown
music
Comus all allows; / Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse. Lord Byron
music people
Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself. Jamie Lynn Spears
music recorded spread squeeze
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas. Brian Eno
music musician roles switch
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly. A. R. Rahman
music
So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged. A. R. Rahman
music
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period. A. R. Rahman