Quotes about music
musical buffalo band
I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength. Rick James
music song giving
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. Rick Wright
music thinking mcdonalds
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. Trent Reznor
music playing-jazz generations
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. Toots Thielemans
music teacher light
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. Toru Takemitsu
music passion discipline
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion. Steve Winwood
music eye guitar
If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar. Steve Vai
music guitar play
Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
music somewhere-else watches
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
music creating bars
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.
music strong past
... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...
music guitar light
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
music play together
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band... Vince Gill
music phones creative
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.
music-is be-good
Good music is good music, but it has to be good. Vikram Seth
music piano feelings
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Robert Green Ingersoll
musician adjectives madness
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime. Sufjan Stevens
music journey thinking
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey. Sting
music sex religion
There's no religion but sex and music.
music song yoga
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
musical tails needs
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
music fortunate making-a-living
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. Sonny Rollins
music spiritual ability
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
music dedication important
One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.
music despair progress
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.
music artist jazz
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
music derivatives originals
No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
music legends want
I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.
music essence jazz-improvisation
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
music moving jazz
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.
music jazz-and-life type
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
music believe thinking
The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).
music jazz
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.