Sean Lennon Quotes

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Just because you have developed the craft on your instrument doesn't mean that you don't have the ability to be expressive emotionally on that instrument, or vice versa.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

I've always had music in my blood.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

I’m not a scholar or a psychologist, so I don’t really think about why. But I do think about what it means to sing to and with people, to offer music to them, and to ask them to spend time with me.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.