Music Quotes

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

They say women and music should never be dated.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

I want to write music that will outlive me.

I've never turned my back on country music.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.