Music Quotes - Page 63

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.