Quotes About Music

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.