Music Quotes

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

Can't let the music stop, Can't let this feeling end, 'Cause if I do, It'll all be over, And I'll never see you again!

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

We don't make music, it makes us

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.

I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.