Music Quotes

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my songs, and putting a face to the music.

House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

Never play a thing the same way twice.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.