Music Quotes - Page 77

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

There’s no such thing as a wrong note.

Rests always sound well.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.