Music Quotes - Page 54

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Music is love in search of a word.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.