Music Quotes - Page 68

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

Music is the ultimate teacher.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.