Music Quotes

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

I learned to forget everything. To concentrate on my music and thank God for all good moments. Because the positive attracts the positive. You must work, work and work to get the most out of it.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.