Music Quotes - Page 84

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child

Music is my religion.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I wouldn’t make it as a painter, a sculptor or a musician. I have tried, but only in private