Quotes About Music

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

Never play anything the same way twice.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.