Music Quotes

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Laughter is the music of life.