Famous Quotes About music

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Soul music is timeless.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.