Quotes About Music

I love this young people's music.

Music is an experience, not a science.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.