Music Quotes

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

I want to be the George Clooney of music.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

Music is what feelings sound like out loud.

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't.

Until the day I don't breathe, I will create music.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.