Music Quotes

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Music is only love looking for words.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.