Quotes About Music

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy song. Bright with... Youthful joy... Lightning...

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

The sky was the colour of an unpolished euphonium, tuned to a dead key.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

The essence will be evident everywhere. In all that the citizens do: in their art, music, food, and their buildings. If the essence of a place nourishes your spirit, then it is a good place to be" -Rovender

Favorite food? Blues (speed). Miscellaneous likes? Birds. Professional ambition? To smash one hundred drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever. There you have it, the world of Keith Moon effectively encapsulated in a few choice words. Straightforward hedonistic pleasures, cheerfully destructive tendencies, and an unattainable goal, except in the words that Townshend had just written and which Moon alone would live up/down to: 'Hope I die before I get old.

Nico, dresses in virginal white, sang in a voice one writer described as "like a cello getting up in the morning

A musical revolution so long in coming was finally on the march.

Any of these acts whose impact on rock music may not be apparent given their modest commercial success could never be denied the enormity of their artistic influence.

Townshend secretly longed to be rendered irrelevant, but his audience – which stretched further into the new generation than he liked to admit – would not let him go.

I was born into the wrong generation. How I would have loved to have been a dashing young man in the 1930s and 1940s when dance bands and orchestras played at dancehalls, and you could hold your partner close and whisper sweet nothings as you waltzed into her heart.

I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody can reach it.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Weren't they one of those one-hit wonder bands, like Dexys Midnight Runners and shit?" "Dexys weren't one-hit wonders back home. They were a good band. That fucking 'Come On Eileen' shit was not what they were all about.

nightlife. She was more of a dancing shoes kind of girl than a hiking boots kind of girl. There was a pained sweetness about her

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.