Quotes About Life

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.