Quotes About Music

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.