Nancy Wilson

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music activates the brain at a high level.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

A great teacher stimulates his student’s creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

The reason I write music is that I feel it’s a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

When you make a sound, it carries on to infinity. Sound is a vibration. Vibration is energy. All of that survives in space long after we’re dead. When I walk on stage at the Wiener Staatsoper, I can feel the footsteps of Chopin and Rachmaninov.

I’m glad I don’t have perfect pitch because it can drive you crazy.

Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.

If you’re going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can’t ‘not’ be a musician.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

You gotta mean it and you gotta treat it gentle.

It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.

The louder they [the band] play the softer I sing.