Music Quotes

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.