Quotes About Music

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.