Quotes about music
music connections music-is
You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings. Robin Williams
music thinking mcdonalds
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. Trent Reznor
music playing-jazz generations
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Toots Thielemans
music teacher light
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. Toru Takemitsu
music passion discipline
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion. Steve Winwood
music eye guitar
If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar. Steve Vai
music guitar play
Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
music somewhere-else watches
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
music creating bars
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.
music strong past
... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...
music guitar light
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
music play together
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band... Vince Gill
music phones creative
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.
music-is be-good
Good music is good music, but it has to be good. Vikram Seth
music piano feelings
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert Green Ingersoll
musical sensual vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. Samuel Johnson
music thinking noise
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
music school play
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool. Sam Bush
musician
I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity. Sade Adu
music people true-beauty
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. Roy Ayers
music silence listening
I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Wallace Stevens
music skins way
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. Will Smith
music communication silence
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot
music christian men
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. William Blake
music clouds patterns
Clouds float in the same pattern only once. Wayne Shorter
music jazz hell
To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
music guy actors
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
music jazz composing
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
music thinking jazz
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
musician ifs
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
music music-is decoration
Music is interior decoration.
music-love i-love-music
I like musicals and I love music. Wayne Rooney
musical monkeys tunes
I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.