“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to something deeper. These quotes explore rhythm, melody, performance, and the mysterious way that organized sound can make you cry, dance, or remember something you thought you had forgotten.
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”
“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”
“Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.”
“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.”
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”
“Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'”
“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.”
“Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.”
“Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.”
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
“Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.”
“I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.”
“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.”
“I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.”