Quotes on Musical

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.