Quotes About Music

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.