Everybody was hollering, and I didn’t know what they were hollering at. I came offstage and my manager told me that they was hollering because I was wiggling. And so I went back out for an encore, and I did a little more. And the more I did, the wilder they went.
Music Quotes
Only sick music makes money today.
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance – whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God that knew how to dance.
I can see fiddling around with a banjo, but how do you banjo around with a fiddle?
There aren’t any modal composers, tonal composers, or serial composers. There is only music that is coloured and music that isn’t.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
