Quotes About Music

I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

To grieve is a gift best shared. As a song is shared.

these voices give music to war…

There were secrets in music and poetry. Secrets few knew and even fewer understood. Their power often stole into a listener subtle as the memory of scent on a drawn breath, less than a whisper, yet capable of transforming the one so gifted, an instinctual ecstasy that made troubles vanish, that made all manner of grandeur possible - indeed, within reach.

Strings for when I'm lying, Fiddler for when I'm telling the truth.

There was music in death. Actors and musicians knew this as true.

The cellist confuses her. She doesn't know what he hopes to achieve with his playing. He can't believe he will stop the war. He can't believe he will save lives. Perhaps he has gone insane,

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor

Whereas when you listen to her on digital, every aspect of her music is minced into tiny, discrete steps and converted into strings of 0s and 1s. Although conceptually the differences are gigantic, our ears can't hear them.

Most of everyday life is spectacularly nonlinear; if you listen to your two favorite songs at the same time, you won't get double the pleasure. The same goes for consuming alcohol and drugs, where the interaction effects can be deadly. By contrast, peanut butter and jelly are better together. They don't just add up—they synergize.

But we all know that, at least in principle, sync can be persistent without being periodic. Think of the musicians in an orchestra. All the violins come in at the same time, and stay in sync throughout. Yet they are not periodic: They do not play the same passage over and over again.

her iPhone in the bowl so the sound would be amplified—pretty much the cheapest speaker system

Wyclef Jean performed the reggae song "Many Rivers to Cross," which

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.