Music Quotes - Page 99

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

I am really addicted to music.

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.