Music Quotes

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

It gets better and better being me.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.