Quotes About Music

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.