Frankie Avalon Quotes

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

The high note is not the only thing.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

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

Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.