Music Quotes

I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

Music is the mirror of reality.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.