Music Quotes

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

I love this young people's music.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Music is my higher power

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Music is organized sound.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.