[On Chopin's :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled...
Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were havin...
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, ...
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, ...
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
The classical music world is so snobbish.
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
Worship is not about having a fantastic voice.
Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
