Music Quotes - Page 61

In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Music is only love looking for words.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.