Quotes About Music

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Culture is something you cannot buy, something you cannot import, something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer, an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!

To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.

I think the first Soulfly album is one of the strongest records I've ever made. It was definitely the most difficult album to record. There was a lot of pressure and anger going on at the time. It felt like a therapy session in many ways, but that's why I think it's such a truthful album. It holds up.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

I've never done a lot of collaborations. Truthfully, artists most of the time are so busy, they never get a chance to get in the studio and be personal with a record.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.