Quotes About Music

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

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

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

However beautiful a song may be, it is just a tune to those who do not understand its meaning.

flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

Don t play what's there, play what's not there.

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Don't play what s there play what's not there.

The metric system ruined me.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.

Why'd you put that white bitch on there?

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo. Todos

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

The chorus of "Jack and Diane" is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.