Freedom Quote by Lester Bowie

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

— Pablo Casals

“The search for a proper tempo is not confined to the world of music - one must seek it in life as well”

— Zhu Xiao-Mei

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but…

— Eduard Hanslick

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

— Miles Davis

I'm not a big fan of saying to people, 'You have to play like this' or 'You can't play that,' because a lot of…

— Josh Freese

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

— Herbie Hancock

Music is freedom

— Anonymous

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

— Feist

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

— Igor Stravinsky

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

— Igor Stravinsky

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to…

— Sizzla

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

— Siobhan Fahey