Quotes About Music

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

But Snufkin took out his mouth-organ and played his gayest adventure-song (not just-the-right-sized adventure, but a terrific one) about rescues and surprises and sunshine.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

T? nhiên không yên l?ng. Nó th??ng xuyên thích thú g?i ??n chúng ta nh?ng n?t nh?c r?i r?c. Nh?ng nó không bao gi? ch?u trao cho chúng ta t? ch?c c?a các n?t nh?c ?ó c?ng nh? không ti?t l? cho chúng ta bí m?t giai ?i?u c?a nó.

It used to be, you'd open your mouth And the weather changed. You'd Open your mouth and the sky'd spill That dry, missing-someone kind of rain No matter the season. And it hurt Like a guitar hurts under the right hands. Like a good strong spell. Now You're all song. Body gone to memory. And guess what? It hurts Harder.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective. "Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.