Music Quotes

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

If you don't ask, you don't get it

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.

I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.