Music Quotes

"A broken heart still beats; it just beats to a different rhythm."

"Even in the darkest night, there is a rhythm to the stars."

"I sing because words alone cannot carry the weight of my emotions."

"Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality."

"If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song."

"I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately."

"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."

"I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby."

"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures."

"Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?"

"And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music."

"The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over."

"Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music."

"I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news."

"I have always abhorred the business end of music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."

"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."

"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live."

"I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries."

"My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music."

"I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life."

"If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there."

"The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it."

"I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response."

"My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff."

"When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum."

"But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles."

"It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there."

"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."

"I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear."

"When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true."

"Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine."

"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?"

"The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it."

"I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing."

"Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast."

"Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore."

"My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening."

"I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me."

"With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person."

"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living."

"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."

"The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter ."

"I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed."

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."