Quotes About Performance

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.