Music Quotes

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

Put out great music, and that's that

Music is the framework around the silence.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.