Sarah McLachlan Quotes

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.

I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.