Quotes About Music

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.