George M. Cohan Quotes

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

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

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

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'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I usually think in terms of music.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

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.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.