Music Quotes

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

Fashion and all that comes after the music.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

Music's another big love of mine.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Where words leave off, music begins.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

The only truth is music.

It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.