Music Quotes

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.

I fell asleep watching the country music channel and woke up racist.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.

You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.