Music Quotes - Page 86

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I love playing music, I love my dog, and I love my family.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example...

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.