Music Quotes

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

I got country music in me.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

Music is the great connector.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart