John Dryden Quotes

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.

My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

I come from a classical background.

I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.