Quotes About Music

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.