Music Quotes - Page 69

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your place Music, hope and amazing grace Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Never play anything the same way twice.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest of brambles and entanglements with freedom and ease. If, on the other hand, you think that with practice the forest of brambles and entanglements will altogether disappear, then right from the beginning you are hopelessly entangled and won't find your way.