Quotes About Music

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

The southerner talks music.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

I'm not a huge big fan of music video.