Music Quotes

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Whatever you believe, you become.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

There are notes between notes, you know.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.