Quotes About Music

Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom." "You sound like you do a lot of thinking in your shop," Pino said, wiping the sweat from his eyes. Luigi laughed. "A lot of thinking. A lot of talking. A lot of reading. It is . . ." The joy left his voice. "It was my home.

I am going to meet a beautiful girl today," Pino said, wagging his finger at the scarlet, threatening sky. "And we are going to fall in mad, tragic love and go on grand adventures with music and food and wine and intrigue every day, all day long.

People are dying and you're playing music?" Several people came into the hallway behind his mother, including his aunt, uncle, and father. Michele said, "Music is how we survive such times, Pino.

Your father is a wise man," the cigar trader said. "Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. This is Cooper.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles