Music Quotes

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

If music be the food of love, play on.

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Music and the music business are two different things.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Music tells no truths.

I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I can't re-define music every week!

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.