Music Quotes - Page 7

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.