Quotes About Music

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.