Music, the mosaic of the air.
Music Quotes
I’d bet on George (Gershwin) any time in a hundred yard dash to the piano.
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 […]
The more your music practice becomes regular, the more real it feels and the more it pays off. Music itself depends on regularly recurring cycles, on periodicity, such as the vibrations of strings and reeds. Consider how the daily rotation of the earth, the monthly orbit of the moon, and their yearly orbit of the […]
Music’s golden tongue Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor.
Does music make plants grow, or are there among the plants some that are musical?
Sing the wandering soul back home.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
I remember from my youth the thrill of unpacking new stereo equipment, how there was always the promise of New and Better Sound with this one, and the unspoken hope that somehow this would help you get a date in the sack, too. (Men seem to believe that about anything they can plug in, just […]
There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
