Music Quotes

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

As we all know, the internet is not a true friend of the music industry yet, but technology is slowly changing that. Soon it will work right for all involved.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?