Music Quotes - Page 27

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.