Quotes About Music

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.