Music Quotes - Page 25

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.