Quotes About Music

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

I got country music in me.