Quotes About Artistry

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Put out great music, and that's that

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.