Music Quotes - Page 31

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Music is poetry with personality.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

Music is the framework around the silence.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.