John Philip Sousa Quotes

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.