Javed Ali Quotes

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded.

We're just trying to make good music.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Music isn't only a profession.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I was late to the game on D.R.A.M.; I knew of 'Cha Cha,' but then I saw his Tiny Desk Concert, and I was hooked. I love how happy he is.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.