Music Quotes

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Music gives 'wings' to words.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I want to make music that lots of people will love.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.