Music Quotes - Page 91

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

American music culture is black culture.

The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.