Music Quotes

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

I don’t need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard.

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

The music business is strictly business.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

I don't need drugs to make weird music.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.