Music Quotes

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

I've grown up a lot, I've experienced a lot, I'm in love, I'm super happy with who I am and comfortable in my own skin and that's definitely gonna be portrayed in the music and in the lyrics.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

My goal was to bring good music back.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.