Music Quotes

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well, but he could write. My role was to compose things, but not really play it.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

You won't walk into a store and steal food. But people think it's ok to steal music.

Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

I want the words to be read in conjunction with the music.

I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates...and everyone else who hates your music.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Making music is a total hassle, really.