Music Quotes

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially the ones who have the same questions for their own lives.

I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.

I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.

I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.

Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.