Quotes About Music

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I've done all the partying, I've done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.