Music Quotes

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!

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

A stone is frozen music

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

I make music with no boundaries.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

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.

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.

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

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

People are strange when you're a stranger.