Music Quotes

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

It's not the words but the music that counts.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

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

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

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

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've lost things bigger than my music career.

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

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.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

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!

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

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.