Quotes About Music

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.