Music Quotes

Sometimes the best music is when you just put it out there.

I can hear the music all around me.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.

I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

There is nothing more regenerating than music.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.