Music Quotes

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

There wouldn't be no grime without me.

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

New York is like a disco, but without the music

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

Architecture is petrified music.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.