(In the music business) everybody gets pimped. You have to decide whether you are going to be a street-walker or a call girl.
Music Quotes
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) was talking to a pretentious but musically illiterate woman who asked him, “Is Bach still composing?” Rather than say, “He’s been dead for more than a century,” Gilbert offered one of history’s Truly Great Replies: “No, madam, he is decomposing.”
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I heard he sang a good song I heard he had a style And so I came to see him And listen for a while. And there he was this young boy A stranger to my eyes. Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song […]
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
