Music Quotes - Page 14

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.