Quotes About Life

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Flowers are my music.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.