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Music Quotes


"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."


"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."


"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country."


"We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities."



"I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well."


"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."



"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."


"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."


"I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out."


"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."


"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."



"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."


"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."


"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."


"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."


"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."


"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures."


"I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it."


"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine."


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


"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."


"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."



"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."


"The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions."
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