Quotes About Music

You can't change the music of your soul.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.