Quotes About Music

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.