Music Quotes - Page 111

In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I want to do my best in everything. Music, love, everything I like.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Music is love in search of a voice.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.