Music Quotes - Page 32

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

Music should always be an adventure.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Music is interior decoration.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.