Music Quotes

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

I tend to jot down music.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.