Music Quotes

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

To master the piano is to master the universe.