Music Quotes

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

Where words fail, music speaks.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.