Quotes About Music

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Good music always defeats bad luck

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

I smash guitars because I like them.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.