Music Quotes - Page 9

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.