Music Quotes - Page 102

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

Music is the great connector.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.