Music Quotes - Page 80

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

I call architecture frozen music.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.

Music is your only friend until the end...

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.