Best Music Making Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.”

People Thinking Persons Might Earth Lovers Despite Making Love Good Person Down To Earth Making People Happy Music Making

Author:Duff McKagan

“Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.”

I Can Advice Ready Flexibility Flexible Umbrella Music Making

Author:Zubin Mehta

“Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.”

Knows Years War Sometimes Running Fall Talking Laughing Plans Listening Wake Up Luck Excuse Keep Going Cartoon Listening To Music Cliffs Good Luck Excuse Me Coyotes Announcers Music Making

Author:Mark Slouka

“I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.”

Art I Can Reality Earth Form Spirit Healthy Pure Approach Music Is Add Genuine Dynamics Stimulation Molding Music Making

Author:Brian Wilson

“Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.”

People Way Writing Book Film Artist Creativity Technology Share Exciting Massive Really Great Antidote Disruption Great Music Great Book Great Film Music Making Film Writing

Author:Edward Norton

“My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.”

Has Beens Able Roles Issues Musician Intention Gender Composer Interaction Music Making

Author:Michael Hersch

“The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.”

May Past Song Names Males Glorious Choir Past And Present Music Making

Author:Glenda Jackson

“It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.”

Wells Irony Motivated Unfortunate Listeners Music Making

Author:Bernard Holland

“The most unique thing about music making is sharing.”

Unique Unique Things Music Making

Author:Igor Levit

“If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Believe Moments Asks I Believe Audience Listening Combination Ask Me Music Making

Author:Michala Petri

“For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.”

Long Use Study Activity Majors Long Time Instruments Musical Performing Electronic Music Homemade Musical Instruments Music Making

Author:Yoshi Wada

“When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.”

Important Nice Happenings Studios Anything Goes Music Making

Author:Georgia Nott

“I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”

Ifs Love Together Laughing Relationship Conversation Laughter Cute Melody Stale Making Time Time Spent Music Making

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.”

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.”

Perfect Emotion Music Expression Activity Jazz Joyful Music Making

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.”

Two Feelings Accolades Music Making

Author:J. Cole

“I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.”

People Inspiration Seems Ability Modern Possibility Excited Heal Contemplation Modern Life Imbalance Music Making

Author:Paul Winter

“Music-making as a means of getting money is hell”

Mean Hell Get Money Music Making

Author:Gustav Holst

“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.”

“My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.”

“I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.”

Thinking Sides Creative Journey Music Making

Author:Michael Giles

“I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.”

Knows Writing I Can Shows Song Imagine Albums Writing Songs Music Making

Author:Pixie Lott

“What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.”

People Should Able Artist Musician Standards Committed Elites Be Confident Music Making

Author:Lesley Garrett