Music Quotes

"The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any."

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

"I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s."

"Music is hugely important to me."

"Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left."

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music."

"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"

"I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time."

"When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be."

"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."

"Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me."

"They say women and music should never be dated."

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

"To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it."

"If it's good music, it's good music."

"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."

"When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music."

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."

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

"I need drama in my life to keep making music."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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

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

"Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally."

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

"I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing."

"I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring."

"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."

"Music is always a commentary on society."

"If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too."

"Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy."

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

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

"I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible."

"When you're from a town of 200 people in Northeast Louisiana, you're surrounded by country music. It's the soundtrack of your life. And so I had no choice but to eat, sleep and breathe country music, and I've dedicated my life to it."

"Music fathoms the sky."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"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."

"Pop music will never be low brow."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

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

"Music comes to me more readily than words."

"Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it."

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording."

"Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically."

"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."

"The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it."

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"