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When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.
When I pull up to music videos, I'm like, 'I've been doing 11-hour days since I was eight-years-old, so I'm not tripping.'
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.
An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.
Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.
In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
You have to be unapologetically yourself. Once I was able to be proud of myself, it came across in my music really clearly.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.