Music Quotes

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.