Musical Significance Quotes

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

The most important thing is to make quality music that will last.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't get it, it will still explain everything. That's how deep it is.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

The power of music is real.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

All I really want is for people to really get what I do and connect with the songs and find meaning in them.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.