Quotes About Music

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Music is the framework around the silence.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.