Music Quotes - Page 103

There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Music is the softest cushion in the world.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

There are no wrong notes.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

If you love music, than you can play music.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach