Music Quotes

Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

I was born with music inside me

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

American music culture is black culture.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Music is a language, a universal language.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.