Music Quotes

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

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

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.