Music Quotes - Page 62

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

The time to hesitate is through.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

The only truth is music.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

A life without music is an error.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.