Music Quotes - Page 78

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.