Quotes About Music

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

I lived for music since I could think.

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.