“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
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 like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.”
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
“The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.”
“My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.”
“You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.”
“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.”
“Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.”
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.”
“I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.”
“A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.”
“I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.”
“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.”
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”