Music Quotes - Page 34

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Put out great music, and that's that

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.