Quotes About Perspective

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

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

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

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

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.