Music Quotes

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

It is a great life, this life of music.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

I've been playing music most of my life.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.

I really like listening to music in my car.

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Let's face the music and dance.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?