Music Quotes - Page 83

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Music is my higher power

My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.

An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.