Music Quotes

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

You understand my music.

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.