top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Music quotes
"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
Explore more quotes by Steve Lacy
"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."
"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
bottom of page