Quotes About Music

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

Silence is more musical than any song.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Music helps not the toothache.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

Never lose the groove to find a note.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.