Music Quotes

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.'

Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I like to do them when I'm home watching TV or listening to music.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.