Quotes About Music

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don't like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.