I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Nigel Kennedy
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own... →
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its... →
William Kennedy
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through... →
Stan Kenton
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for... →
Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this... →
Riley Keough
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public... →
Jerome Kern
I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.