Quotes About Music

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.