Music Quotes

"A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"

"All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."

"All I've ever wanted to do is sing country music and tell stories that people connect to."

"As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied."

"Country music is my life."

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"

"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."

"Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music."

"Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven."

"Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it."

"Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful."

"Folk music is a bunch of fat people."

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness."

"For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around."

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."

"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play."

"How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion."

"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."

"I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans."

"I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both."

"I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music."

"I don't intend to stop making music."

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

"I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?"

"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 don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read."

"I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings."

"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."

"I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make."

"I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no."

"I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing."

"I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth."

"I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America."

"I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin."

"I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever."