Music Quotes

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.