Quotes About Music

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

Music is like my security blanket.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.