Music Quotes

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

My heart and soul is still music.

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.