Quotes About Music

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

All one's feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn't attract me.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.