Music Quotes

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Talent is only the starting point.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.