Music Quotes

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff.

The southerner talks music.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.

Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

I prefer music that invents a universe.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.