Music Quotes

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of change I did in a deliberate way - I think I just evolved.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

We are ugly but we have the music.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.