Music Quotes

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves