Music Quotes - Page 101

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.