Music Quotes

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.