Music Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

I would happy for someone to download my music.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.