Music Quotes - Page 23

Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

I love music more than I love people.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Music should be your escape.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Whatever you believe, you become.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.