Quotes About Music

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

It is estimated that on average, the British drink 165 million cups of tea every day 511 John Quincy Adams was gifted a pet alligator by a French general, which he kept in a bathtub in the White House 512 Cows have been proven to produce more milk when they are listening to music 513 If you were to play the world's longest musical piece, it would take around 630 years

Listening to music is one of the few activities that engages the entire brain

Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about–filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

I challenge you to a rap battle, Kanye West. I play the clarinet.