#music

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#african #asian #brazilian #brazilian music #deliberately

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#children #express #gypsy #her #how

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#brown #challenged #come #expectations #experience

His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible. ↗

— Joshua Logan

#direct #form #heart #his #music

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. ↗

— Jon Lord

#classical #classical music #effect #i #i love

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#i #like #listen #mission #music

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage. ↗

— Jacob Hoye

#beauty

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#any #i #listening #little #little time

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). ↗

— Patti Smith

#music