Music Quotes - Page 17

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

All you need is love.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.