Music Quotes

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Music should always be an adventure.

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Music is poetry with personality.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

Music is interior decoration.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

My ambition was to live like music.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.