Music Quotes

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

Music chooses her musicians.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

Music was the voice I didn't have.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.