Music Quotes

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

When we separate music from life we get art.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Music is always a commentary on society.