Quotes About Music

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

All God's Chillun got Rhythm.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

God has provided true musical and spiritual restoration.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.