Music Quotes

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Always pack your uniform on top.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.