Music Quotes - Page 3

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.