Music Quotes

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

My music is fun, kind of cheeky.

I do love country music.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

Country music has always sort of been country music.