Quotes About Music

If you didn't know it already, now you do: old dudes from rural Taiwan are comfortable with their karaoke and when they do karaoke for some reason they love no one like they love John Denver.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal. He was in a bind, 'cos he was way behind; he was willing to make a deal.

For the first time in more than twenty years, I was without a recording contract. We were no longer an act that a major label would want to sign. We did not even remotely resemble what was happening on radio, which was increasingly being dominated by younger acts.

We were a band without a radio format but not without a following. As always, our concerts were our bread and butter. We continued crisscrossing the country, playing our music and entertaining hundreds of thousands of concertgoers each year. I decided that as far as my recording career was concerned, from then on I would record whatever struck my fancy, without being concerned about it having to fit mainstream radio formats, whatever genre, whatever style.

I will never run out of new projects. I've got them backed up in my mind, and when I feel one is complete enough, we just get the band together, call our engineer, and proceed to make some new music. I did a duet album called Deuces with artists ranging from

As I approach my golden years, I find that the creative juices still flow bountifully. I've got enough album concepts and ideas to take me years down the road, and as long as God gives me the strength, I'll be writing and recording new music.

It was to be another one of those moments when just a few words will change your whole life. She said, "You have been invited to join the Grand Ole Opry!" Did I hear her right? Did she really say what I thought she said? At the age of seventy-one, was I really going to realize one of my longest-held and fondest dreams?

There is an art to entertaining a crowd. If you've got a bevy of hit songs, you can entertain by simply playing them one after another. If you're a knockout in size 28 jeans who can take away the breath of the females in the audience by simply walking on the stage, you're entertaining. But since I have never fallen into either category, I have had to rely on other attributes.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.