Quotes About Music

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Whether we like it or not, it really is a jungle out there in the world of business, and it's crawling with predators. In my work I often use the image "dance with the tiger," because the tiger is viewed or even worshiped around the world as the ultimate predator. To dance well—to negotiate well—we must hear the music, we must feel the music, we must be tuned in to our partner—our "adversary"—at all times,

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.