Quotes About Music

I wanted to collide with the times and create a voice that had musical, social and cultural impact.

No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving. I'd seen other great musicians lose their way and watch their music and art become anemic, rootless, displaced when they seemed to lose touch with who they were. My music would be a music of identity, a search for meaning and the future.

We could survive as musicians only on our little sliver of the East Coast. We had to get back.

REVIEW! We had been recognized by a big-time newspaper music critic as Jersey badasses gone to teach those West Coast sissy boys something about THE ROCK!

It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt.

My Mind" and the country music I'd so long ignored. Hank

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

One imagined these barrel organs, beautifully painted, carried on the backs of little grey old men, whose indistinct faces, corroded by life, seemed covered by cobwebs – faces with watery, immobile eyes slowly leaking away, emaciated faces as discoloured and innocent as the cracked and weathered bark of trees, and now like bark smelling only of rain and sky.

A piactéren álló ház els? emeleti lakásán nap mint nap végigvonult az egész hatalmas nyár: rezg? léglombikok csöndje, forró álmukat alvó fényes négyszögek a padlón; a nappal tárházának legmélyéb?l kiszabadult verklidallam; egy zongorarefrén újra meg újra felhangzó két-három taktusa napfénybe ájultan a fehér kövezeten, a nappal mélyének tüzébe veszve.

Focus on your music and not technology.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Do you remember why you started playing?" "Why does anybody play? ... Are you a musician?" "Yes. ... Yes, I am." ... "Then you know why I play." ... "Because your spirit has to sing. Every musician's heart bears a song from the Creator, and he spends his life trying to duplicate it as an act of worship.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.