Quotes About Music

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.

Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues

Because jazz musicians improvise under the pressure of time, what's inside comes out pure. It's like being pressed to answer a question before you have a chance to get your lie straight. The first thought is usually the truth.

The most prized possession in this music is your own unique sound. Through sound, jazz leads you to the core of yourself and says "Express that." Through jazz, we learn that people are never all one way. Each musician has strengths and weaknesses. We enjoy hearing musicians struggle with their parts, and if we go one step further and learn to accept the strong and weak parts of people around us and of ourselves, life comes at us much more easily. A judge has a hard time out here.

Music was just one of the tools we employed to create excitement. The jazzman's objective, however, was solely musical: Through his improvisation, he wanted to take people deep into his actual feelings and his world.

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in another's mouth; but very flat and untuneable in his own.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music," the Professor said. "Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music. Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

A problem has a rhythm of its own, just like a piece of music," the professor said. "Once you get the rhythm, you get the sense of the problem as a whole, and you can see where the traps might be waiting.

It became more difficult to breathe. I looked around. My body was now included among the objects arranged on the floor. I lay there between the music box and the harmonica, my two legs protruding at odd angles, my hands crossed on my chest, my eyes lowered. In the same way he had wound the spring on the music box or blown into the harmonica, I imagined R would now caress my body in order to call forth memories.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.