Music Quotes - Page 38

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.