Music Quotes - Page 85

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music.

People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

Music is organized sound.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.