Music Quotes

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Women and music should not be dated.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.