Music Quotes - Page 21

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

You are the music while the music lasts.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.