Music Quotes

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.

I think of language as our first music.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

...And you're the only one who knows.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Jazz is not background music.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.