Music Quotes

Oh, thank you love With all my heart and soul I thank you love Each day that comes and goes I thank you love I thank you 'cause you gave me true love

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so .... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Color is a language, like music.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

Making music is fantastic.

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music.

If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.