Quotes About Music

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.