Quotes About Music

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

All rock music is fake news.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.