Quotes about music
music play guy
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well. Roy Haynes
music men poor
Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music thinking cities
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
music men effort
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
music secret who-we-are
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
music inspiration writing
For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. Sean Lennon
musical acting i-love-music
I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical. Scarlett Johansson
musical-ability talent conclusion
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Shinichi Suzuki
musical different want
I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way. Sean Paul
music effort brain
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. Lewis Thomas
music unique play
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
musical yorkshire heritage
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide. Lesley Garrett
music communication profound
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
music player influence
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. Lee Konitz
music play long
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
music play results
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
music firsts sound
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
music player vocabulary
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
music lonely loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell
musical poetic fit
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. Laura Riding
music two dumb
Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.
music color snakes
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.
music wine musician
Music and Wine are one.
music voice tone
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
music speech cures
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
music get-better being-me
It gets better and better being me. Liam Gallagher
music thinking people
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste. Les Baxter
music innovation musical
Any good music must be an innovation.
music guitar play
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world. Les Paul
music guitar wonderful
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
music mother different
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
music thinking guitar
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
music guitar color
Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?