Music Quotes

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Some music really does suck!

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.