Quotes About Music

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

I like Destiny's Child.