Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Music Quotes
That’s it! That’s the noise I want to make! (statement when he saw Pete Seeger on TV playing banjo)
In experiments, the plants grew lush foliage and large roots when baroque music was played to them, and they leaned toward the music as if toward the sun.
In music’s sweet harmony, I have all the proof I need of God.
A (film) musician is like a mortician. He can’t bring a body to life, but he can make it look better.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Composers shouldn’t think too much it interferes with their plagiarism.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
