Karen DeCrow Quotes

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

The people need to feel the music.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

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.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I love music; it's my passion.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.