Music Quotes

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool.

Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

These days, DJ's are the ones who are bringing fresh sounds to the music world. In fact, they are creating a new spatial music. They are the space transformers of the universe.

When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I been doing music my whole life.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.

That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.