Music Quotes

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

You don't ask, you don't get.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

I find my inspiration in myself.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

Flowers are my music.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.