Musical Quotes - Page 6

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.