Famous Quotes About music

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.