Music Quotes

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

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

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

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

I love playing music, I love my dog, and I love my family.

Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

I hope I dont give music a bad name.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Music is your only friend until the end...

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

The heart that feels music will feel people

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!