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Music Quotes
"I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths."
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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
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"Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing."
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"I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band."
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"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene."
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"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me."
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"It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it."
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"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
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"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own."
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"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."
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"It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up."
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"It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music."
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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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"There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western."
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"Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it."
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"I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!"
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"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time."
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"Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us."
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"Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years."
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"What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man."
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