Quotes About Music

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

The only outlet in mainstream culture for classical and more experimental music to be heard is through movie soundtracks, and they're such a wonderful display of emotion. I think the guy that did that best is Stanley Kubrick, working with Wendy Carlos who is an electronic composer.

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

Kiss will always be Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley to me.