Music Quotes

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.

At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!

Music and fashion inspire each other.

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.

I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I don't really listen to music before the game. I mean, I play it in my car on the way to the arena, but I don't really listen to music before the game. I'm usually working out or lifting weights.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.