In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what – apart from the eternal innocence of animals – offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer, or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of […]
Music Quotes
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
If I had a hammer, I’d use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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.
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?
