Quotes About Life

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.