Music Quotes

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

To sing is to pray twice.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.