Quotes About Simplicity

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.