Quotes about Music, page 8

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about music

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction. Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room. What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Quote by Evan Parker about music

My favorite musical. I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Quote by Trey Parker about music

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some...

Quote by Trey Parker about music

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

Quote by Trey Parker about music

Anything recorded after 1939 I didn't want to know about.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

I don't quite recall how I first got interested in traditional jazz.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

I was a real musical prick, I really was.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

I'm very fond of piano players

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music

I saw the Rolling Stones around the office from time to time. Mick Jagger asked me to teach him how to play the piano.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music

Our records were perfect for compact discs, but the record companies did not initially understand digital recording.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music