Jill Scott Quotes

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

Music was the first art form I ever had.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

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

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.

Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.