Music Quotes
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
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My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.
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I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
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When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.
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Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
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I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
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My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.
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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
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Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
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That's all that matters in music: fun.
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There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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that's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto.
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We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.
