Famous Quotes About music

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.