Quotes About Music

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].