Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Music is a dialogue.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Music is the silence between the notes.

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

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

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

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

I love singing.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

I was in an a cappella group in high school.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I have always loved singing.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

If I don't feel the music, I can't perform it.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

Words are music, really.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.