Quotes About Music

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I grew up with reggae music.

Music Has Been There For Me When No One Else Was And The Only Thing That Stays When Everyone Else Leaves

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.