Music Quotes

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

I grew up listening to English music.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

My focus is on music. I want to be able to see the world and meet fans everywhere. I think that's the priority for me and I literally couldn't be doing anything else.

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.