#music

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#bass #dead #depends #differently #going

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family. ↗

— Sam Rivers

#both #cause #family #father #grandfather

I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#words #writing #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. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#american #classical #classical music #comes #cultural

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#music #art

Silence is more musical than any song. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#more #musical #silence #song #than

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#contribution #create #further #general #kind

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#arts #father #going #i #i think

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#angles #camera #complicated #falling #falling in love

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it. ↗

— Michael Gungor

#creativity #musicians #worship #art