Music Quotes - Page 42

Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Love is friendship set to music.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.