Quotes About Music

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is me and I am SHINee.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.