Quotes About Music

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

I can't imagine life without singing.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.