Music Quotes

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

People now genuinely respond to it and associate me with music. It's really fun.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

Americans are good at making dance music.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

I usually wait until I get on the bus, when I'm done with media and I get to sit down and listen to my music and just read through everyone's messages.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

In America, music is more tightly categorized

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

I love my music and recording people.

I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.

Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.