Music Quotes - Page 41

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.