Bon Scott Quotes

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Music is forever changing.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

It does just boil down to music.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I've always said that music is like literature.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I think musically.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.