Music Quotes - Page 13

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

To sing is to pray twice.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.