Quotes About Music

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.

G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

The life of music is bigger than all of us.