There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. —Henri Matisse More about this quote Tags: talent music audience liveliness jazz improvisation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: music bad good harm charm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ear is the avenue to the heart. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: music heart sound ear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. —John Lennon More about this quote Tags: writing music letting go sleep night Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. —Elvis Costello More about this quote Tags: writing music architecture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: music government taxes pianos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The professional because of his constant involvement with the mechanics of music, must fight to preserve the naiveté that the layman already possesses. —Bill Evans More about this quote Tags: music professionalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. —Jean Paul More about this quote Tags: life music moon night Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. —Marcus Bridgstocke More about this quote Tags: music kids impressionable electronics videogames Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. —Johnny Carson More about this quote Tags: life music art fairness Elvis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: music youth listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. —Arthur Honegger More about this quote Tags: music coposers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email