Music Quotes

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

To work is to feel alive.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Music should either move your feet or move your heart

I want girls to hear my music and want to play it again because it made their hearts feel good.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.