Quotes about music
music mind praise
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. Joseph Addison
music heaven
All of heaven we have below.
music wisdom heaven
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
music-is profession
Music isn't only a profession. Jose Carreras
music surfing balance
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is... Jorma Kaukonen
music fun progress
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
music needs use
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
music player style
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
music guitar age
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument...
music fun blessing
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
music eye over-you
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears. Jose Bergamin
music opposites doe
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
music car lovely
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
music important ravel
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. Jonny Greenwood
musician wanted
I always knew I wanted to be a musician. Jonny Lang
music joy sorrow
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. Joni Mitchell
music home men
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
music song writing
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
musical sacred equipment
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. Kurt Cobain
music want complaining
I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
music fake-people jazz
The worst crime is faking it.
music truth challenges
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
music ducks drs
...I like Dr.Ducks Ax Wax .... Joe Beck
music meaningful song
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. Joan Baez
music song writing
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
music optimistic rocks
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Jimmy Page
music years determined
... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...
music band territory
... if you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing ...
music rocks important
...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists...
music moving past
... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times ...
music-is let-me has-beens
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
music communication world
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Lou Rawls
music crazy going-crazy
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. Lou Reed