Music Quotes

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

I cannot live one day without love.

People aren't hearing all the music.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Like LeBron James, we already know how good the man is. We know he can play. He's rich. But he still want a ring. N!ggas know my music hot. That's proven. Now its time to get the ring.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.