Quotes About Clarity

You can only lose what you cling to.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

There is no art without intention.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.