Music Quotes

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.

Never play anything the same way twice.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Music is the ultimate teacher.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?