Quotes about music
musical verbs jazz-and-life
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. Pat Metheny
music people personality
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
music way jazz
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
music jazz poetic
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
music worry too-much
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
music jazz environment
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
music demand jazz
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
music powerful ideas
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
music people long
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
music-is
Music is one big thing to me.
music guitar keys
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
music firsts kind
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
music kindness philosophy
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. Pablo Casals
music important notes
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
music careers firsts
Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
music humanity purpose
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...
music beautiful heart
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
music wings giving
Music gives a soul to the universe. Plato
music beautiful affair
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
music hands soul
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
music republic art-education
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
music destiny rivers
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music. Paula Cole
music thank-god emotion
Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.
music play guy
... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way. Phil Lesh
music grateful different
... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.
music thinking guitar
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. Lee Ann Womack
music country thinking
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
music trying different
But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
music country texas
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
music morning laughter
There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.
music-is colorful
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful. Pharrell Williams
music thinking music-is
I think all music is a gift from God.
music music-love defense-mechanisms
What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop. Peggy Lee