909 private quotes tagged music

“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.” — Lil Wayne

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“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.” — Neil Young

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“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'” — Elvis Presley

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“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.” — John Keats

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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.” — Truman Capote

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“Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.” — Cameron Crowe

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“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.” — Diogenes

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“The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.” — Charlie Haden

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“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” — Morgan Freeman

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“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” — Gottfried Leibniz

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“There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.” — Barry White

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“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.” — Henry Rollins

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“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.” — Steve Martin

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“Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.” — Charles de Lint

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“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” — Elton John

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“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.” — Henry Miller

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“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.” — Andres Segovia

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“I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.” — Buddy Rich

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“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.” — Mick Jagger

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“Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.” — Katherine Jenkins

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