Music Quotes

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture.

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

I write music. I'm in a band.

My pure love is playing music.

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.