Music Quotes
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Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
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Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
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Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.
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At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me.
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The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
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Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
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Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.
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I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
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Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
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It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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That was against the rules. We grew up in a bubble. We hardly heard music other than what we heard in church. Occasionally we'd get to listen to oldies. That was considered wholesome, I guess.
