Music Quotes - Page 116

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I've been playing music most of my life.

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

I really like listening to music in my car.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.