Music Quotes
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.
It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.
It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.
If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.
It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.