Jack Kerouac Quotes

Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

I made music a priority every single day.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

Only after coming to Chennai did I come to know that I know nothing about music. People in Chennai are so talented in Carnatic, ghazals, etc. They can play Piano, etc so well.