Music Quotes - Page 88

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

The biggest secret weapon we had in regards to really being true to this part of the world, and making sure this part of the world could see themselves in this film [Moana] in a way that felt positive and accurate, was Opetaia, my co-writer, Opetaia Foa'i, who has a great band called Te Vaka and is an amazing musical and cultural ambassador.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz is a music of surprise; its a music of spontaneity. I think jazz musicians live--I know I do--for being surprised and not knowing whats going to come next.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.