Quotes About Music

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.