Quotes on Music Is

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know?_x000D_ It's almost like a hallucination

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Music is the framework around the silence.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment...Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

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

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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