Quotes About Music

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.