Music Quotes - Page 82

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

This machine kills fascists.

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".