Quotes About Music

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun...

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know… It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.