Quotes About Music

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

I love music more than I love people.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.