I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.
I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it. " "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
Music is a reflection of who you are.
I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
. . . . success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.
When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing. . . and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become. . . this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit. . he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.
I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale. " Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now. " But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.