There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!
“All language is an aspiration to music.”
“I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.”
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
If music be the food of love, play on.
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Music is a safe kind of high.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Music is my religion.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.