Quotes About Music

people keep asking me about -why I am so passionate about trench town and its people? they also want to know what- bob marley and peter tosh was like. I will say to them:- just think about some poor youths trying to sing their way out of poverty while their friends were being killed around them almost daily, and to see most of them die a tragic death. this is trench town.I am here to tell this history and truth.

they see their dreams and aspirations crumble in front of their face, and all their wicked intentions to destroy the human race- we must use reggae music to chant down babylon. All forums of elite domination must be destroyed, and we use reggae music to do it.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Knowledge is precious in all its forms: music, art, science, and technology, as well as the embedded knowledge in our bodies and brains. Any loss of this knowledge is tragic.

The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain's complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions.

La tristeza es algo constante. Las canciones se dedican a tapar la tristeza igual que el ruido tapa el silencio. Así que cuando las canciones se acaban, vuelve la tristeza.

Desde que los periódicos dicen que el mundo se acaba, siento que las canciones son más cortas y los días más largos.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.