Music Quotes - Page 67

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

There is no art without intention.

I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught