Music Quotes

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

Don't die with your music still inside.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

Good music always defeats bad luck

Music is part of being human.

When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I smash guitars because I like them.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like