I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone’s teeth get cleaner? (ridiculing the “Tipper Sticker” the PRMC “parental warning” stickers essentially forced on the music industry)
Music Quotes
Don’t get annoyed if your neighbor plays his hi-fi at two o’clock in the morning. Call him at four and tell him how much you enjoyed it.
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I’ve felt it.
A musical page must be translated into sound and, yes, interpreted, before it is much good to anybody. At this point criticism enters. It used to amuse me in Spain that it should take three children to play bull-fight. One plays bull and another plays torero, while the third stands on the side-lines and cries […]
You just pick a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music!
Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
