Waylon Jennings Quotes

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

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

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Music is the silence between the notes.

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

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

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

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

When words leave off, music begins.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Good music is good music.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

I play the drums, I love to sing. I'll make a beat anywhere - on the wall, on the floor - and I can have fun doing just about anything.

Music is magic.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

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