Music Quotes

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

Taylor's music is a hybrid with integrity

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Architecture is crystallized music.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

One need not fear for the future of music.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.