Music Quotes - Page 66

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

It gets better and better being me.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.