Music Quotes

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

Michael Tomlinson's music truly explores the issues of the heart.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

You go to a show and you know the crowd is there because they like the music, not because everybody else was going. That's a good feeling. You look out there and you know, these are our people.

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.