music Quotes

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.