Paul Horn Quotes

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Piano is like drudgery.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

A great song is a great song.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I very much like dance and dancers.

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

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

When words leave off, music begins.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.