Quotes About Music

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.