Quotes About Music

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

I wanted deliverance, the loss of myself. The capacity to be inside that music. It was the same power and sensation you feel when a wave takes you up and pushes you somewhere else.

In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live." "The best kind of music comes when you're being intuitive, unconscious of your body, in some ways losing your mind: the Body/Head dynamic.

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig.

practice of female members dancing themselves into a frenzied, almost orgasmic hysteria. The juxtaposition of this with what were otherwise very conservative beliefs and rituals was bizarre to him. Dan wondered what rock-and-roll music and the Shaker sect had in common.

Once Dan told me he wished he could make art that was like a Kinks song. (A lot of artists listen to music while they work, and many think, Why can't I make art that looks as intense as the sounds I'm hearing? I don't have an answer.)

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.

There were others of course - The Velvet Undergound, the Doors- who took risks in the 1960s, when no one knew where any of it was going. Before them were the Beats and before the Beats the avant-garde artists, the futurists, Fluxus, and before that, the blues, outsider music, a mourning for what's expected but will never happen, so why not dance and play and forget for a few moments that we're all alone anyway?

An unending kiss--that's all we ever wanted to feel when we paid to hear someone play.

All the hours and years since then inside vans, on buses, in airplanes and airports, in recording studios and lousy dressing rooms and motels and hotels were possible only because of the music that sustained that life. Music that could only have come out of New York's bohemian downtown art scene and the people in it

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

The album we've made is much more than a book. It's worth even more than the time that it took.

The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through the opening, taking flight. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Soon they will land on the plants in search of bollworm eggs. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

The sound of silence is muted and unheard, music is quite the opposite.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds. —Miss Kanagawa

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.