Music Quotes

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

Music is the pathway to the heart.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I play. Even when I was playing coffee shops; it's how its always been.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

Philosophy is the highest music.

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

The finest fury is the most controlled.