Music Quotes

I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew.

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

If you really want to know something about me, you should know this: I like my music loud.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

Without music, my life would be black and white.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.