Music Quotes

Life without music is unthinkable.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

All you need is love.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Music fathoms the sky.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

You can cage the singer but not the song.