Music Quotes

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

One likes to believe in the freedom of music...

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

Music is the center of my life.

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

I'm against people downloading music.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass