Music Quotes

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

The Universe is making music all the time.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Soul music is timeless.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.