Music Quotes - Page 115

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

The biggest reward from that record was the enthusiasm everyone had to sing on it. The Grammy nominations and the chart positions are great, but ultimately the way you interact with other musicians is the most important thing to me.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.