Music Magic Quotes

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

'Pop' is not a bad word. What's more interesting than changing the chemistry in a room in three minutes with a song?

Let Me Love You' is one of my favorite records from my catalogue. It's one of those songs that just happened magically.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

Toomp produced 'White House' on my first record, and we made magic.

In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.