Music Quotes - Page 37

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.