Quotes About Music

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.