Mick Fleetwood Quotes

I can't imagine a world without music.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

Music is my love.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

The great love of my life is music.

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

I usually think in terms of music.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while it has that magic, and the audience knows that. I probably miss it more than I hit it, but I think that's what all musicians try for.

Composers are very individual creatures.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

Music is in my DNA!

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.