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.
Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)
When I was nine, I got “With The Beatles,” and my grandma bought me a honky old drum and an old cymbal. That’s it, isn’t it; what more is there? A drum, a cymbal and “With The Beatles.” Has the world really come on much further?
A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)
