Quotes About Comparison

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

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

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

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

Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.