Music Quotes

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

I not only listen to country music - I have a like for R&B music.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

If you don't feel pretty, you're wrong. If you're dealing with a problem, don't be afraid to talk. And... If you think you're alone, listen to my music 'cause I'm here for you.

I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.