“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to something deeper. These quotes explore rhythm, melody, performance, and the mysterious way that organized sound can make you cry, dance, or remember something you thought you had forgotten.
“I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.”
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”
“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
“For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.”
“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.”
“I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.”
“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.”
“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.”
“I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.”
“I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.”
“I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.”
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
“Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.”
“My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.”
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”