I think it’s such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn’t really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place – my little office where it’s dark and cozy – with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It’s my little cocoon. There’s no phone or fax or Internet. And no music.
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.
I’m not interested in forcing my music on people, and that’s what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
I don’t consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that’s a very, very passionate artist, and the drums just happen to be my instrument.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
I want people to get positive energy from our music.
I’ve always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
I’m a total hip-hop geek. That’s my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period – but if you get sick or injured and don’t have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
Music fathoms the sky.
