Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

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.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Music inflames temperament.

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Pop music will never be low brow.