Quotes About Music

That's what Proust calls it. On those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape from the present. That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is.

That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is. The trouble - for me - is that at some stage I realized those miracles, those aches, they have a history. They're not private. The music's always about what someone's lost. That's what you hear, when it's good: the worlds people lost, the ones they want back. And once you hear it that way, you can't avoid it - that it's somehow about justice.

Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.

She lives in the apartment complex next door and has two daughters, a music blog and a committed relationship with alcohol.

It's called a gui-tar. It's used to perform American rural music. It's said to be especially popular in Texas," he told her. "It's also the instrument of choice for playing 'the blues,' which is a form of American music that chronicles the pain caused by poor decision making.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

I'm very inspired by past music.

Desormie, ahead of me, hummed out a melody with lipfart percussion and aggressively dance-walked and thought it was strutting.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs.

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

No frogs can sing as well as Polish ones.

this was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.

I asked her if she liked PJ Harvey and she said that she liked her old stuff mostly and that Uh Huh Her was pretty good too and then I tried not looking at her for a minute because she was starting to mad own my gaze like in a magnetic way and I didn't want to sweat her too much.