Music Quotes

It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

When you're dead, you're done.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

I am not a fan of books.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.