Quotes about Music

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

I'll put on some Bing and we can believe for a marvelous, miraculous, glorious Christmas season.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" — it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.