My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare..
Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion..
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in p….
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all th….
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is n….
A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just….
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness..
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles..
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on..
When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul is so solid and reliable that you can tr….
Music takes us where words cannot..
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play..
Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song..
Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars..
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead..
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time..
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect..
I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Te….
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most..
It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, ….
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves unde….