Music Quotes - Page 64

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

You blows who you is.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.