Best 567 quotes in «music is quotes» category

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Jazz music is the power of now.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

Life without music is unthinkable.

Life without music is no life at all.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.

Music is an indirect force for change

Music is a reflection of who you are.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Music is a universal language.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

Music is geometry in time.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Music is inarticulate poesy.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Music is about the performance.

More often than not, I'm worried about, where shouldn't we have music? Because the tendency is just to put everything everywhere all the time in a lot of movies. You end up just numbing the audience when you do that and it's not the best way to tell a story.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.