Quotes About Music

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.