Music Quotes - Page 43

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

You have to give people something to dream on.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.