About Music Quotes

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Thelonious Monk

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
- Fiona Apple

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
- Richard H Baker

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.
- Bo Bice

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
- Jimmy Carl Black

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
- Otis Blackwell

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
- Nina Blackwood

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.
- Sean Booth

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
- David Bowie

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.
- Carrie Brownstein

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
- Carrie Brownstein

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
- John Cale

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
- Will Champion

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
- Nat King Cole

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
- John Coltrane

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
- Aaron Copland

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
- Elvis Costello

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?
- Ronny Cox

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
- John Mellencamp

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
- Ellen Degeneres

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.
- Dustin Diamond

I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books
and stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said about
his field, Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Maureen Dowd

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.
- Justin Townes Earle

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?
- Kevin Eubanks

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
- John Fahey

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
- Mike Figgis

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
- Tim Gane

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
- Jerry Garcia

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
- Dizzy Gillespie

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
- Brian Austin Green

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
- Jonny Greenwood

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
- Jennifer Lopez

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.
- Ben Harper

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
- Alberta Hunter

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
- Ll Cool J

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
- Keith Jarrett

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
- Stephan Jenkins

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
- Joan Jett

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
- Wynonna Judd

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
- R Kelly

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
- Jewel Kilcher

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.
- Charles King

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar....And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.
- Chuck Klosterman

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
- Diana Krall

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
- Wayne Kramer

One of the things I love about music is live performance.
- Yoyo Ma

The song reminds me of my life lately and the way things that happen devastate you so badly but then turn around and totally surprise you by growing into something unexpected and astounding.
Of course, i could be wrong. I mean, who knows what the song is really about except whoever wrote it? But that's one of the many things about music that's so great. You can interpret a song and relate it to your life any way you want.
- Love Maia

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
- Thomas Mann

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
- Branford Marsalis

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Steve Martin

They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.
- Margaret Mitchell

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
- Roscoe Mitchell

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
- Michael Moriarty

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
- Alanis Morisette

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
- Britney Spears

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
- Pitbull

There was something vampiric about.. music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don't believe in the supernatural...the way harmony could be layered upon harmony until you felt yourself dissolving in the sound. So eloquent of dread it was, this music.
- Anne Rice

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
- Johnny Rivers

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
- Eric San

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.
- Maximilian Schell

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
- Michael Schenker

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
- Billy Sheehan

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
- Thomas Sowell

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
- Layne Staley

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
- Serj Tankian

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
- Cecil Taylor

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.
- Travis Tritt

You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies.
- Harry Warren

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber

What I like best about music is when time goes away.
- Bob Weir

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
- Olivia Williams

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
- Thom Yorke

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Frank Zappa