Music Quotes

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.

Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.

Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

I still come out to music that's in Spanish. There's no denying who I am, but I've just made it to where my performance is so anybody can understand it - whether you're 10 years old or 80 years old.

If we're talking music I could go on and on and on.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong.

Pop music should be about young people.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

Very sad to hear the news about George Michael. An incredible talent who brought joy to millions of us with his music.

I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again.

My goal is really to continue to make music.

I love to play music.

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.