Quotes About Music

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

There are notes between notes, you know.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.