Quotes About Music

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.