Paul Desmond Quotes

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Paul Desmond

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• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Small
  • Player

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Forever

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Human

• Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Long
  • Career

• Music will save the world.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Music
  • Will

• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • People
  • Music

• One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Time
  • Music
  • She

• To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Goal

• I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Up
  • Power
  • Mother

• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Music
  • Simplicity
  • Sincerity