Quotes on Music

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, _x000D_ For one another, though dissimilar?

Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.