Music Quotes

A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

Magical music never leaves the memory.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Jazz is America's classical music.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

I like seeing people that are into my music, it shows me that it doesn't matter, you can't judge a person based on how they look, and that's just how my music is.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Without music I should wish to die.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?