Music Quotes

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

We're here to have a ball.

Music is geometry in time.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

I just make music from my soul and let it be.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Music is the only thing that doesn't hurt when it hits you.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.