Quotes About Music

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

Music is the center of my life.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.