Music Quotes - Page 4

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

You say, 'Well, I love secular music.' Let me just share something with you: I don't care. I'm not going to go there; this is what I'm going to tell you: It doesn't matter to me whether it's secular or Christian. My question is, what's being said in those words? Because if what's being said in those words contradicts the will of God, you're violating His will, and you're loving it.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

Music can change the world.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.