Quotes About Music

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

I make records so I can buy art.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.