Quotes on Music

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

There's no religion but sex and music.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.