Quotes About Music

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.