Music Quotes

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.