Music Quotes

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

I've always stood up for country music.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.