Music Quotes
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I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
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For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
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My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
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The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
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Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
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Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
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It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
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You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving.
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To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
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I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.
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It was like how, when he read a poem to himself, the rhymes were neither sound nor silence. Unheard melodies in the mind’s ear. The muted music of consciousness.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
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I think you can make a gorgeous movie on any piece of equipment. Look at 'Tangerine,' which is a beautiful movie shot on an iPhone. You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there's no audience for that except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos.
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
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I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
