In this post, you will find great Music Quotes from famous people, such as Igor Stravinsky, J-Hope, Stephen Marley, Prince, Thomas Merton. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I’m never gonna stop music, it’s like air to me.
All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her ‘ear’ – the understanding and recognition of musical elements – for guidance.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
Music really is our daily medicine.
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
I don’t like to talk about typical things in my music – my music is more about real life situations.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
It’s so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.
Music is what I love to do; it’s in my veins.
I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
You can’t save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful. Artistically I’m not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I’m not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
I don’t listen to music. I don’t watch television, I don’t read.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.
That’s country music for you – bourbon and the Bible.
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents‘ passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It’s no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.
It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer. I’ve been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I’ve allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.
I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.
There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I’m just a sweet girl.
Soul music is true to its name. It’s music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people’s spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.
Sometimes it’s hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
I’m not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything’s gone, music alone shall live on.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.
For me, music and life are all about style.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I’m left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.
Good music will always be recognized in the end.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
Live music is proof that there’s some things the Internet can’t kill. In our lifetime, we’re going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won’t be one of them.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
Music is there to get you through life’s ups and downs, good times and not so good times.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
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.
There’s no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It’s all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Nothing can ever be wrong about music.
I’ve always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn’t changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It’s a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.
I think the impact my music has had on dance music fans is to bring out their inner love for dancing and having a good time.
I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
As Bob Marley says, ‘We must carry on.’ So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
Mozart‘s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
I think that American music, for me, it’s a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.
When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Music my rampart, and my only one.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.
I don’t care what people think of me, unless they think I’m mean or something, but I don’t care if they think I’m like someone else because I know I’m not – I’m a total weirdo. I’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I’m just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
‘Climb Every Mountain’ is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think ‘The Sound of Music’ is saccharine, but I think it’s profound. The message, that we can’t accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.
My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I’m really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it’s not only about the music.
The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won’t let you.
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.
When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody‘s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
I got the idea for ‘Throne of Glass‘ when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the ‘Cinderella’ soundtrack, I thought, ‘What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn’t mind kicking butt?’
Music is really something that makes people whole.
There will be no new music until it’s good enough and until I’m ready.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.
Music has no language. That’s something I’ve come to believe in even more ever since ‘Kolaveri Di’ happened. I don’t deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same – where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
I love bossa nova. It’s the most beautiful genre of music in the world.
I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
Music and fashion have to have their own styles. It’s a must.
Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.
I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It’s not just entertainment. There’s an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Every song is like a painting.
Music was never just a hobby for me. I’d pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
I have to be able to have music at all times – to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
Music is my first love.
