Robert Morris Quotes

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!