Quotes About Music

Without music, the prehistoric past is just too quiet to be believed.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep. Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Democritus wrote books on ethics, natural science, mathematics, and music, of which many fragments survive. One of these fragments expresses the view that all matter consists of tiny indivisible particles called atoms (from the Greek for "uncuttable"), moving in empty space: "Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention; atoms and Void [alone] exist in reality.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there we're a band of brothers.

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all can understand.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.