Music Quotes

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Music is only love looking for words.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.