Quotes About Music

I've been loving music all my life.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?