Music Quotes
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.
I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
