Quotes About Music

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.