Music Quotes

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.