Quotes About Music

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

I never practice; I always play.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

There's nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.