Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.
It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
All music is beautiful.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Any good music must be an innovation.
Long intros are cool because there’s a little bit of anticipation, you know?
Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
We all love musical architecture; there’s no doubt about that.
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
