Quotes About Music

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.

I was a drum 'n' bass DJ at first but not any one of note.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.