Music Quotes

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up w...

There were no parents holding them back, no younger siblings needing to be cared for, no one telling...

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actu...

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost noth...

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions a...

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger ...

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with tec...

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love th...

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazin...

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's...

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support f...

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to cont...

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...

In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the f...

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainm...

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music ...

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the inter...

Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May the...

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And bec...

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated that such messages can be understood by ...

From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up f...

For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. ...

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because...

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and pa...

Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ...

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately...

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether ...

Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re b...

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experie...

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the ...

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience whe...

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere,...

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-tel...

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop...

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long dayAnd you've got the sandman at your door. But hang on, l...

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. T...

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried...

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, wor...

...music is the key to life

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason...

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made enti...

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing...

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to d...

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultat...

Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and lo...

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. Y...

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, b...

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has e...

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooketha...

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic...

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but j...

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better...

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Dor...

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you migh...

But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the...

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that so...

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s...

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I do...

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and ...

I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]

I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood y...

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan A...

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips th...

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapp...

Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he s...

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will...

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d r...

I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd n...

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your hear...