Quotes About Music

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.