Music Quotes

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

I love all types of music myself.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

Ok, look. I'm honest. Girl I can't lie I miss you. You and the music were the only things that I'd commit to

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.