Music Quotes

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

All music is beautiful.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.