Music Quotes

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

I have never stopped playing music.

I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Music and fashion really do go hand in hand. This is even going back to the reggae days.

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

The music is supposed to be healing.

I listen to old Idaho, and there are moments of true inspiration there. I think the music is speaking on its own a little bit more. It's evolving, it's not losing its heart.

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.