Music Quotes - Page 73

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.