My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don’t really have the patience for it, and they don’t stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we – it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.
Where words fail, music speaks.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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.’
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Music is made one of Satan’s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords. But I also have a thing for bubbly lullaby music. Kind of like ice-cream truck rap.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I’m always working on myself, and my music is the same.
When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
Every song is like a painting.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.
I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
I had to realize that you can’t try to get money, support yourself, and grind doing whatchu need to do at the same time. The music is the grind. You really gotta grind. You gotta find your way around. You can’t be stuck tryna get there.
Wine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine.
Music is only love looking for words.
Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
I like music that expresses what I think.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
