Music Quotes

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.