Music Making Quotes:

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

- Igor Levit

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Unique, Unique Things, Music Making

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

- Bob Marley

topic: Funny, Music, Wisdom, Love Freedom, Jamaican Music

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

- Elvis Presley

topic: Music, Witty, Humorous, Notes Music, Spiritual Music

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

- Luciano Pavarotti

topic: Music, Expression, Perfect, Music Making

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

- Annie Lennox

source: "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Teenager, Grateful, Views, Incorporating, Recording Music

When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.

- Georgia Nott

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Nice, Important, Anything Goes, Music Making

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.

- Michala Petri

topic: Believe, Listening, Way, Music Making

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.

- Yoshi Wada

topic: Long, Musical, Use, Music Making

The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Ipods, Design, Doe, Subscription, Industrial Design

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

- Bernard Holland

topic: Irony, Motivated, Wells, Music Making

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

- Glenda Jackson

topic: Song, Past, Names, Music Making

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.

- Helene Grimaud

source: Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

topic: Children, Independent, Parent, Parent Child, Parent Child Relationship

My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.

- Michael Hersch

topic: Issues, Able, Musician, Music Making

Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

- Edward Norton

source: Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

topic: Book, Writing, Creativity, Film Writing, Music Making

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

- Brian Wilson

topic: Art, Reality, Healthy, Molding, Stimulation

Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.

- Mark Slouka

topic: Running, War, Fall, Announcers, Music Making

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

- Zubin Mehta

topic: Advice, Umbrella, Ready, Music Making

I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.

- Duff McKagan

topic: Thinking, People, Making Love, Music Making

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Cute, Relationship, Music Making

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

topic: Communication, Writing, Winter, Indoor Plumbing, Mountain Streams

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

- Paul Winter

topic: Inspiration, People, Modern Life, Music Making

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

- Gustav Holst

topic: Mean, Get Money, Hell, Music Making

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

- Derek Bailey

source: Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

topic: Music, Children, Skills, Musical Performance, Music Making

My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.

- Carlo Maria Giulini

topic: Real, Heart, What Matters, Real Friendship, Music Making

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

- Michael Giles

topic: Thinking, Journey, Creative, Music Making

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

- Pixie Lott

topic: Song, Writing, Albums, Music Making

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

- Lesley Garrett

topic: Artist, People, Musician, Music Making

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

- Will Oldham

source: Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Listening, Singing, Records, Music Making

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

- J. Cole

topic: Two, Feelings, Accolades, Music Making