Music Quotes

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.

My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

The lights must never go out, The music must always play

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

The music comes first. It will always be first

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.