Music Quotes

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

I love the conversation between film and music.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I hear music as narrative.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

I get the most joy in life out of music.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Obviously music is my first job.

I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

Music is more fun when it's collaborative, in my opinion.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.