Quotes About Music

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.