Music Quotes - Page 47

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I cannot live one day without love.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.