Music Quotes

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Music is the eye of the ear.

I love music, it's always been a big passion for me.

I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.

When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

I like musicals and I love music.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

A new music is a new mind.

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.