Music Quotes - Page 59

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.