Andrew W.K. Quotes

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

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Music is organized sound.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

I love to explore melody.

Melody is the essence of music.

Music is the universal language.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Music is just air moving around.

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.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I really believe in melody.