The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say… It’s the only way I can ‘chillax.’
As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Change is the only constant, whether it’s in music, culture, dance or fashion.
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
Music is what our feelings sound like.
It’s always about the music, never about anything else.
