Music Quotes - Page 104

We must use time creatively.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Never play a thing the same way twice.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Music is the mirror of reality.

My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

I hate music, especially when it's played.