Music Quotes

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Music is not an abstract art. It is a concrete art, because it is made of sounds, and sounds are concrete.

To be a musician is to be a communicator. You're communicating feelings and emotions and ideas, and that's what music is all about.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I am a mighty hunter of birds, of women, and of good librettos.

My mission is to spread joy.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

To be a revolutionary, you have to be a rebel. To be a rebel, you have to be an individual. To be an individual, you have to be yourself.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm James Brown. I'm the Godfather of Soul.

Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

All you need is love.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.

What we play is life.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky, imagine all the people living for today...

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.