Music Quotes

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul is so solid and reliable that you can trust it every night

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

Music stops you from thinking.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.