Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Harmonies are nice.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

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.

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.

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

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Melody is the essence of music.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Rests always sound well.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.