Music Quotes

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Everything is music for the born musician.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I believe that music is God's voice.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.