Music Quotes

Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.