Quotes of: Jazz-music Keyword

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Florence Welch

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Garth Brooks

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Gavin Bryars

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

George Crumb

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

George Crumb

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Gustavo Dudamel

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

Greg Evigan

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Gordon Getty

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

Glen Hansard

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

Grace Jones

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

George Michael

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Giorgio Moroder

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

Grimes

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

George Steiner

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Grace Slick

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

Gerard Way

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Gin Wigmore

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

Gin Wigmore

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Harrison Birtwistle

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Harrison Birtwistle

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Flynt