Quotes About Music

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.