Music Quotes

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Everyone deserves music.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

The music speaks for itself!

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

I’d just play the music and dance. When I’m dancing, I don’t even notice how I’m doing it.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Music and dance are all you need.

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.