Quotes About Music

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.