Music Is Quotes - Page 21

• That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Guitar, Being Free

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• All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

  Larry Coryell

  People, Musician, Way

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• Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

  Greg Lake

  Fun, Self, People

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• Music is organized sound.

  Edgard Varese

  Sound, Organized

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• For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Music, Inspiration, Inspire

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• I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

  John Frusciante

  Running, Ideas, Infinite

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• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  Vince Gill

  Country, Records, Great Success

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• In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

  Gus Van Sant

  Couple, Thinking, Hunting

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• I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Soul, Experience

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• In America, music is more tightly categorized

  Ednita Nazario

  America

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• Remember the music is not in the piano.

  Clement Mok

  Piano, Remember

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• To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

  John Frusciante

  Voice, People, Spirit

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• Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

  John Frusciante

  Differences, Important, Energy

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• For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

  Herbie Mann

  Play, Perfect, Style

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• I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Believe, Healing, Stills

  Twitter post from Dec 02, 2014

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• Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, People, Giving

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• Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

  Tom DeLonge

  Dance Music, Who You Are

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• The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Boredom, Release, Function

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• Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Differences, Language

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• But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

  Van Cliburn

  Strong, Forever, May

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• I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Sacrifice, Serving God

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  Tim Gane

  Simple, Thinking, Way

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• Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Mean, Years, Wonderful

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• I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Music, Country, Heart

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