Music Philosophy Quotes

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

Everyone is my equal, and that is transferred to my music.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.