Music Quotes

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

See the music, hear the dance.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.