Music Quotes
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Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
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I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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I love school and science; I also love piano and music.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.
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I'm always eager to make new music.
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I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
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Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene.
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Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.
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Music has the power to inspire the world.
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I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.
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I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
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I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.
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The most important thing for me personally is that I can connect with other people through my music. I want my album to be like a trip that people can take with me. My music is like me stripped naked because I open myself up completely.
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Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.
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When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.
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Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.
