Quotes About Music

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Singles also have an endearing ability to get out of their own way: Imagine trying to extend "Pappa-Oom-Mow-Mow" for an entire album (and one thing you'll have imagined is a central dilemma of some of today's best recordmakers).

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."?

In more than one case I saw a glockenspiel fully half the length again of the bandsman carrying it – although the particular offensive capabilities of such an instrument were at that time well nigh impossible to guess. For

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I said that certain West Coast jazz was like "wet dream music." That's a great line, isn't it? You knew something happened when you woke up but you got no satisfaction!

well, David Bayles, to be exact — who began piano studies with a Master. After a few months' practice, David lamented to his teacher, "But I can hear the music so much better in my head than I can get out of my fingers." To which the Master replied, "What makes you think that ever changes?

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

We sway and disappear in each other's arms, and "So Far Away" starts crooning through the speakers, and for one moment in time, two lonely astronauts floating in space finally find each other.

Stay on the sceneLike a sex machine

Any music comes from the inner mind and soul, reaching out to the unknown.

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