Music Quotes - Page 107

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.