Music Quotes

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

Folk is bare bones music.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.