Music Quotes

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I live my daydreams in music.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

You have to evolve and change but you're always gonna get that street edge out of my music regardless. That's who I am. That's in me and that ain't gon' never go away.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.