Music Quotes

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

If it's good music, it's good music.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and someone is like, 'Explain it,' and you explain the message, it's like - poof. It all crashes down.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Music is organized sound.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.