Music Quotes

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.