Music Quotes

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Every language has its own music.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

Music will never stop - it can never stop. I will continue to sing for my fans till the end of time.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

You better lose yourself in the music

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

Music reflects on who you are as a person.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.