Music Quotes

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Music inflames temperament.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

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

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.