Quotes About Music

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.