Music Quotes

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Music is a potent energy force.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books... I collect vintage vinyl records.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

Its just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

I love X-Games music.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

Particularly, in my situation, I needed a way out of where I was. So music was that.