Quotes About Music

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.