Music Quotes - Page 75

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

The high note is not the only thing.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Music is the 5th gospel.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.