Music Quotes

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

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.

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.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

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

My heart and soul is still 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 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

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

Just like music evokes emotion, so can garments.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Music is actually where I see heaven.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.