Music Quotes - Page 50

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I smash guitars because I like them.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Music is part of being human.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.