Music Quotes - Page 106

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.