Music Quotes - Page 100

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.