Quotes about music
music legends want
I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not. Sonny Rollins
music essence jazz-improvisation
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
music moving jazz
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.
music jazz-and-life type
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
music believe thinking
The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).
music jazz
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
music online stores
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. Steve Jobs
musical becoming theater
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical. Steve Earle
music thinking people
Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
musical comedy brainstorming
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. Stephen Sondheim
musical duration sound
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended. John Cage
music strong ears
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.
music practice singing
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
music meaningful organization
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
music resurrection finished
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
music piano criticism
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
music school two
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
music fighting hands
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.
music mean rapids
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
music cutting ego
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
musician
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.
music mistake happens
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
music past gone
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
music people trying
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired. Matisyahu
music study harmony
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. Quincy Jones
music years awards
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
music kids upset
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
music men differences
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
music temptation morality
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. Prince
music keys aspect
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
music native-american tunes
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. Terri Windling
music memories menagerie
In memory everything seems to happen to music. Tennessee Williams
musical
I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families. Teddy Thompson