Music Quotes

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

The medicine of the future will be music and sound.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

If there is no dance, there is not music.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.