Music Quotes - Page 29

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.