Music Quotes

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

I'm composing and writing music.

Well, I get excited about music.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

A dance to the music of time.

My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I play the piano and write music.

Everything I do is music-related.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.

People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest.

I love musicals and I love Broadway.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.