Music Quotes

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.