Music Quotes

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

I write music with an exclamation point!

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.