Music Quotes

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

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

Music is my religion.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.