When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine