Music Quotes - Page 92

Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Music is a language, a universal language.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Bad music can make you weak.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going on, per se - it's more like riding a wave. and I know how to stand on the board

I know absolutely nothing about music.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

I was born with music inside me

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.