Music Quotes

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

I do everything for my fans. I do my clothing line, my fragrance, my TV show, my music everything is based on them

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Music is love searching for a word.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

I have always felt Osho's one hundred percent trust in me regarding the music.

I really prefer electric music.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I don't want to kick people in the face with my music, I'm just vibing. It's a very cool vibe.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.