Edgar Meyer Quotes

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

You are the music while the music lasts.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

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.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

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.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

I lived for music since I could think.