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My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.
I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!
I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.
Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.
The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.
I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
The sea is whipping the skyThe sky is whipping the seaYou can hide away forever from the stormBut you'll never hide away from me.
You've travelled through life together Enjoying years of wedded bliss We congratulate you on reaching And we toast your happiness
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.
My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!
Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.