Quotes About Music

Music became more of a film camera, or a microscope exploring all the details of a text. As a result all phonetic aspects of the text were assimilated into musical process.

Music is something that you have to do with your body. You listen with your body. In fact, a good musician has to think with his belly and to feel with his brain. That is very important.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

When they were all ready, Halpern again counted them in, and the lyrical clarinet line floated over the strings and, Max felt, out of the open window and on, out and out over the hot, dusty July city like summer rain.

the fact that now it's Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass,

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

Popular music creates most impact in the telling of stories.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

How can the feeling man resist feeling, the loving one love? Who has not experienced the overwhelming power of melody? And what else is melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; … feeling communicates itself. … Is it man that possesses love, or is it not … love that possesses man? When love impels a man to suffer death even joyfully for the beloved one, is this death-conquering power his own individual power, or is it not rather the power of love?

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.