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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind
Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.
When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.
If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.
I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.
Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.