Quotes About Music

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.