Music Quotes

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music

I prefer making videos to making music.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

I never made music for that crowd. I never made music to fit in. I made music of what I like to hear.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

The sweetest music this side of heaven.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.