Music Quotes - Page 48

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music creates order out of chaos.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.