Quotes About Music

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60 000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Voglio danzare, disegnare, suonare il pianoforte, scrivere versi, io voglio amare tutti. Questo è lo scopo della mia vita.

La musique avant toute chose

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

At the end of the day, someone took the monitor and speakers away. But the music was still there. This was my first understanding of grief.

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.