Music Quotes

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

If it's music, I love it.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Music is hugely important to me.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

I always composed music as a little kid.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

Some people know me because of my music and come and see me in my concerts but you very rarely see me or hear me in press or TV or radio magazines.

The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.