Music Quotes

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Music Has Been There For Me When No One Else Was And The Only Thing That Stays When Everyone Else Leaves

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.