Quotes About Music

I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It was raw and dark. Think of 'Something in the Way,' by Nirvana - he was telling everyone how he felt.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.