Music Quotes - Page 55

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I see my life in terms of music.

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.