Quotes About Music

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

All music is the blues. All of it.

I love playing music, I love my dog, and I love my family.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.