Quotes About Music

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Life is a song to me.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.