Music Quotes - Page 105

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Music inflames temperament.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Only sick music makes money today.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.