Music Quotes

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

Music will save the world.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

There's so much interaction between the crowd and the music that it's an incredible moment to be a part of.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

Music tells no truths.

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.