Music Quotes
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
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Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
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I just play Cure music, whatever that is.
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The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
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I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.
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You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.''
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.
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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
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I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
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I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
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It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
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Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.
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There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
