Quotes about music
music luxury world
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury. Wim Wenders
music christian thinking
I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside. Wes Montgomery
music special want
I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
music groups thousand-miles
When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
music play feels
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
music comforting beauty-of-life
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
musical theater whole-life
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. Zachary Levi
music football playing-music
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football. Zakk Wylde
music instruments extensions
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. Yusef Lateef
music stupid simple
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov
music-is
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. Young Jeezy
music-is blanket security
Music is like my security blanket. Yoko Ono
music artist people
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
music listening made
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it. Wynton Marsalis
music perfect stories
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
music people tragedy
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
music sound jazz
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
music moments groove
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
music decision splits
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
music jazz power-of-now
Jazz music is the power of now.
music vocabulary choices
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.
music style substance
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
music mean understanding
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.
music difficult principal
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
music art mistake
It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.
music writing passion
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
music horse italian
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.
music ears please
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
music art writing
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician....
music world harmony
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
music art silence
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
music order continuity-of-life
Music creates order out of chaos. Yehudi Menuhin
music stars eye
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.