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Quotes About Life

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.
~ Brad Paisley
What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.
~ Billy Cobham
I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.
~ Jimmy Cliff
I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
~ Gerard Way
I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.
~ Andrew McMahon
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.
~ Steven Tyler
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.
~ John Bertram Phillips
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
~ Bob Marley
Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.
~ Walter Mikac
I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
~ Placido Domingo
What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.
~ Rose Schneiderman
Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.
~ Avril Lavigne
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
~ Robert Breault
all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.
~ T.I.
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.
~ Pauline Oliveros
I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
~ Mark Hoppus
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
~ PJ Harvey
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
~ George Eliot
I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on
~ Nathan East
I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
~ James Hetfield