Quotes About Music

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.