Quotes About Music

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.