Music Quotes - Page 30

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Never lose the groove to find a note.

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.