Music Quotes

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.