Music Quotes

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

Love is sunshine, music, nature, my puppies, my boyfriend, my parents, my siblings, my true friends. It's a connection that allows us to coexist on this planet.

I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important.

I was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun.

I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.