Music Quotes

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

Music is everybody's possession.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.