Music Quotes

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

I started playing music when I was really young.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

Where music leads, I follow.

I listen mostly to classical music.

As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.