Music quotes

“You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.” Keith Richards

“Some music really does suck!” Henry Rollins

“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.” Henry Rollins

“The world's a better place since I chose music.” Henry Rollins

“There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.” Henry Rollins

“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.” Bill Gates

“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

“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.” Bill Cosby

“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.” William Blake

“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.” David Bowie

“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.” David Bowie

“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.” David Bowie

“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.” David Bowie

“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.” David Bowie

“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” David Bowie

“I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.” David Bowie

“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.” David Bowie

“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

“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.” David Bowie

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.” Michael Jackson

“The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.” Michael Jackson

“I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.” George Harrison

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” Rabindranath Tagore

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” Alan Watts

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” Adele

“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.” Adele

“I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.” Adele

“I love hearing my audience breathe.” Adele