Music Quotes - Page 15

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.