Quotes About Music

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The music is everything to me.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.