Music Quotes - Page 16

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Life without music is unthinkable.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.