Music Quotes

All one’s feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn’t attract me.

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

I want to be a person crazy about music.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.

You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.

I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

I just do what I do. I like to make music

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.