Music Quotes

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

Music's my medication.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

I haven't stopped making music since I started at 16 and throughout the years I made a lot of different connections and had a lot of opportunities.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

I enjoy incorporating different elements of music that I enjoy listening into my songs. I want to give what feels good to me while never compromising my message, which is Jesus is my Lord and Savior.

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

You know what I want, above all things? I want people who are aware of my music right now, to believe in change.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.