Quotes about music
music new-york different
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult. Freddie Hubbard
music want hard
They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
music cat fire
[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.
music night men
I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.
music giving dizzy
Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.
music art mistake
Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.
music remember-you remembers-you
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.
musical keyboards creation
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. Frederic Chopin
music communication giving
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.
music men listening
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
music art simple
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
music housewife terrible
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife. Freddie Mercury
music successful reason
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
music rocks opera
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
musical dear
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
musical los-angeles annie
I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles. Christina Milian
musical sound inspired
I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing. Christina Aguilera
music growing-up real
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
music mean sound
I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like. Chris Martin
music song romance
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists Gerard Way
music hands mirrors
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
music pain kissing
Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me
music dream life-and-death
Life is but a dream for the dead.
music beautiful song
Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
music sex prayer
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis
music silence listening
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said. Hans-Georg Gadamer
musical care taste
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. Hans Frank
music beautiful life-is-like
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Hans Christian Andersen
musician young
The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize Frances Bean Cobain
music useless musician
Music is essentially useless, as is life. George Santayana
music encouragement art
The earth has music for those who listen.
music mean giving
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
music useless life-is
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.