Quotes About Music

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

The reality of my life is it's about 25 percent music, and everything else I do is so I can get that 40 minutes later to go play. And it is unquestionably worth every second of it.

I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.