Quotes on Music

When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - or think of something beautiful, think of a baby, maybe one you love, really keep that thought in your mind, block out everything but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to feel good.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.