Joe Bonamassa Quotes

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

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

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.

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

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

The thing I love about music is that if a singer is good, let's say, you are instantly transported to that emotion. Acting is a more drawn-out process.

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

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.