Music Quotes
Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.
If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.
Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.
Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.
In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.
I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.
I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.
Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
