Dan Deacon Quotes

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.

As human beings we're visual creatures, and it's so easy to play the guitar by looking at it. It's a real challenge to go from that visual way of perceiving the guitar to getting back to that pure sound connecting to the instrument.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

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

It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes

Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.