Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

We became the songs we wrote.

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

I found that music was my favorite art form.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.