Music Quotes

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

I love music more than I love people.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.