Quotes About Music

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.