Quotes About Music

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

To sing is to pray twice.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.