Music Quotes

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

If you like music you like silence actually.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I want to do my best in everything. Music, love, everything I like.

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.