Music Quotes

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

My music is jazz.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I am an inventor of music.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.