Music Quotes - Page 109

'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played.

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Music is structure out of Chaos

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.