Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.
Art is my God, Music is my religion.
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
