Music Quotes

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I like other people's music.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

scales are the grammar of music.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.