Music Quotes

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Bad music can make you weak.

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.