Music Quotes - Page 79

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

When you're dead, you're done.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.