Music Quotes

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I've been loving music all my life.

I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.