Music Quotes

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.

Music makes the people come together.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

We're making the music we love, and hopefully the fans are gonna love it, too.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I think music docs could turn off some people.

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

Music is my passion. It's my priority. I love it.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

The great love of my life is music.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.