Quotes by Music Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through. Andrea Gibson broken-heart music love The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. Andres Segovia music play inspirational The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. Andres Segovia piano music monsters When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices. Andres Segovia guitar music color The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. Andres Segovia music ocean beautiful I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. Andrew Hill music sensual expression I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric. Andrew Hill eccentric music crazy I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing. Andrew Hill piano music writing These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt. Andrew Hill magic-moments music people Music, the mosaic of the air. Andrew Marvell mosaics music air Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. Andrew S. Gilbert jazz style music The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. Andy Rooney music careers air Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ani DiFranco piano music love When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless. Ani DiFranco growing-up music country I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. Ani DiFranco edges music language You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Anita Baker family music home Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love. Ann Petry music pain hate Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing. Ann Wilson records music energy Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. Anne Lamott singing music heart Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing. Anne McCaffrey music hard-work running «23456789101112»