Music Quotes - Page 94

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.