Music Quotes

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

I’m never gonna stop music, it’s like air to me.

Philosophy is the highest music.

My goals are – I don’t need much. I’m a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I’m having fun doing music, I’m happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I’m really happy.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.