Quotes About Music

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.