Music Quotes

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.

I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop.

Music should make you feel good.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

I don't like talking about music.

You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.