I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Music Quotes
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Swans sing before they die; ’tweren’t a bad thing – Should certain persons die before they sing.
My parents occupied the bedroom directly above mine while I was growing up. Luckily they were heavy sleepers, and loud music late at night didn’t seem to bother them much – unless, of course, it was the high-pitched guitar or vocal work of Neil Young. On such occasions, my mother would trudge downstairs, rap at […]
He (Richard Wagner) was the first to use music as a means of influencing, of entrancing, of intoxicating, of conquering. To be sure, all musicians direct their attention to the ‘world’ – to connois- seurs, to a community great or small, to the nation. Even before Wagner a few composers had felt impelled to create […]
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
I saw the best musicians of my generation maybe not the best but plenty good believe me – splattering their illegible scrawls on the fatal last pages of criminally exploitative recording contracts beneath the gaze of predatory mobbed up executives regarding with displeasure the sheepish grin of their own helpless attorney who deserted their beloved […]
Music sweeps by me as a messenger – Carrying a message that is not for me.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I have always been driven by some distant music – a battle hymn no doubt – for I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigilance.
