Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Music is the silence between the notes.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
