Music Quotes - Page 33

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

My ambition was to live like music.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.