Quotes About Music

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.