Music Quotes

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

The high note is not the only thing.

Music is the 5th gospel.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

We must be as pure as our music.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

Music became a healer for me.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

Music is an experience, not a science.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.

The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

I'm down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I'm basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.