Music Quotes

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

I recently saw Brooke Hogan's new music video, and I've got to say she looked hot.

Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.