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I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
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.
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them - not then, not now.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
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.
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.
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 holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song
Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.
As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?