Quotes About Music

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

For a time Jerry toyed with appearing in another improvisational play called Story Theater, in which he and Carbone considered and rehearsed singing Frankie Avalon's hit Venus, but changing the key lyric to "penis.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

As the music began for the last song, tears swelled in Hannah's eyes. She dared to take a quick glance at Jake only to find tears streaking on his face too. Then he turned to her and smiled. And he wasn't a dream at all. He was very real.

Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got no friend; without a song, the road would never bend. Without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Good-night.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Wes imagined that, in some other distant world, if he remembered nothing else about his father, he would remember that his hand trembled when he drank water. That, or the fact that his eyes teared up whenever he heard "Brown-Eyed Girl" on the radio.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the world, by people living in different circumstances and different times.

solace in their shared anger, grief, and guilt. Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted—and to explore the effect of the music

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago ' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

Ozzy Osbourne had it built when he lived there before me. He was so sweet, but let's just say we have a different design aesthetic. The studio was all black and scary when I moved in. I made it mine, lightening the room and overlapping pretty rugs to create a sound cocoon.

It was like I was in an SNL sketch about the over-singing pop-star mom.