Quotes About Music

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.