Music Quotes

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

I use my music to tune myself.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

I never thought electronic music would get as popular in America as it has. When I first came to Vegas in 2009 for my residency - we were they only people playing electronic music at that time.

Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

I've always had a very broad taste in music.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.