Music Quotes

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

Some music really does suck!

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

I actually came from the fashion side, so maybe I knew more about fashion - and music like hip-hop because I was a DJ - so it was really successful when we mixed it all up together.

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.