Quotes About Music

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.