Quotes About Music

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

Where you are right now blast some music and forget.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.