Quotes About Music

For this event, Richey insists on taking a suicidal Joy Division tape along as backing music. "Oh yeah!" mocks Nicky. "That'll really get the tea party rockin'!

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

at the Virgin megastore.

My father wants to take your favorite song and play it better than you've ever heard. I want to take your least favorite song and play it so good that you like it.

Rap music is the newspaper of black people.

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

If it sounds good, it IS good.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

And when a song is good, a standard, we recognize it as expressing a truth. Like a formula, it can apply to everyone, not just the singer.

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word.

Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions

Sometimes, when the music calls, you just gotta dance.

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such