Aaron Koblin Quotes

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I really believe in the power of music.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.