Quotes About Music

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener.

Inside, upstairs, where the planes are met, the spaces are long and low and lined in tasteful felt gray like that cocky stewardess's cap and filled with the kind of music you become aware of only when the elevator stops or when the dentist stops drilling. Plucked strings, no vocals, music that's used to being ignored, a kind of carpet in the air, to cover up a silence that might remind you of death.

As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

When you're feeling despondent just put on more country music. There are thousands of slit-your-wrist hillbilly songs that will make you laugh at your self-indulgence and ultimately cheer you up.

Connie goes off the charts and into a whole new realm of music. Suddenly channeling Ol' Dirty Bastard's scary voice and skyrocketing to a new level of coolness, Connie raps an all-new ghetto version of the once-tepid theme song to Follow the Boys

I hated the Beatles when they first came out because they were so goddamn cheery. I didn't listen to popular music from 1964 until 1976, when I first heard the Sex Pistols. Finally a new antihippie sound that could piss off every musical legend that came first.

And no, the hit records of your generation are not better than today's. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

She now represents the Western United States, thus proving politics is even more accepting of the strange, unusual, and mostly useless than the music industry.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album I loved her.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.