“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
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“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.”
“I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.”
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
“Music was important. Football was the easy part.”
“I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.”
“When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.”
“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.”
“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.”
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
“If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.”
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
“Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?”
“I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.”
“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.”
“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 am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”
“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.”
“The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.”
“I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.”
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.”
“I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?”
“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.”