Music Quotes

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.