Quotes About Interpretation

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.