Heartbreaking tales of these fleeting stars
"I don't know anything about music. In my line [of work] you don't have to."
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
"Music is forever, music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
"Music should be your escape."
"If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play, and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to."
"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
"Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it."
"I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it."
"I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends."
"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
"I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind."
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.'"
"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing, and playing what you want. In [Merriam-] Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering, and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I'm older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"
"At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the color of the labels."
"Music never felt like a job."
"All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
"The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews."
"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realized that, I knew music was where I wanted to be."
"What's missing from pop music is danger."
"I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan."
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."
It's perhaps no surprise that some of the best quotes about music come from singer-songwriters. Musicians love to wax lyrical about themselves and others, anything from philosophical musings on peace and love to entertaining and sometimes stupefying advice for anyone hoping to find show business success.
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The best quotes about music from famous musicians
What singer-songwriters think about the art of music and their peers
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It's perhaps no surprise that some of the best quotes about music come from singer-songwriters. Musicians love to wax lyrical about themselves and others, anything from philosophical musings on peace and love to entertaining and sometimes stupefying advice for anyone hoping to find show business success.
Click through the following gallery and see if these words hit the right chord with you.