Quotes About Music

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.