Sarah Vaughan Quotes

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.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I was different from most young conductors today.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

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

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

All music has to speak in some form or other.