I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
Quotes About Music
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
You’ve got that smile, That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday, That you keep that smile. Yeah, you are my dream, There’s not a thing I won’t do.I'd give my life up for you,'Cause you are my dream.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.
— Twelfth Night
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
— Lyrics, 1962-1985
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Where words leave off, music begins.
Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.