Quotes About Music

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

I can hear the music all around me.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.