Quotes About Music

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

My heart is like a singing bird.

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.