Music Quotes - Page 70

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.