Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.
Music Quotes
You’re talking to someone who really understands rock music.
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites – opposite bends, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity – where energies flow smoothly in one direction – there will be much doing but no music.
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other one isn’t.
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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?
