I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other one isn’t.
Music Quotes
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
In music’s sweet harmony, I have all the proof I need of God.
A (film) musician is like a mortician. He can’t bring a body to life, but he can make it look better.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Composers shouldn’t think too much it interferes with their plagiarism.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
Blues is a good woman feeling bad.
