Quotes About Music

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.