Music Quotes

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

...the elephant smoked too much.

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

My goal was to make good music and keep my name poppin'.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Music is like my security blanket.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.