Quotes About Music

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.