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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.
The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.
I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up