Quotes about music
music speaks
I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up. Drake Bell
music presented
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way. Aleksey Igudesman
music playing realised stray types
I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker. Rebecca Ferguson
music whatever
I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.
musicians quite tricky
If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive. Bill Dixon
music
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority. Maia Mitchell
musical small specific
I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer. Tom Wopat
music singing singers
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. Montserrat Caballe
musician opinion
If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling. Milarepa
music addiction jazz
Music is an addiction. Miles Davis
music way hearing
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
musician spirit great-music
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
music play horns
You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played
music nice confused
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
musical carter ought
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
musical taught jazz
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
music mistake europe
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
music museums glasses
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
musical festivals next
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
music three way
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.
music space perfect
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
music blue done
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
music guitar sound
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
music notes
There are no wrong notes.
music swings purple
I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
music men artist
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
music trying hips
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
music play african-american
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
music jazz heroin
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
music understood ifs
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
music men legends
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
music causes quitting
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
music father play
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.