Music Quotes

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Where you are right now blast some music and forget.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I listen to gospel music.

The worst crime is faking it.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.