Music Significance Quotes

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Music is part of God's universe.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

We're trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

Music's my life, and it always has been.

Every song is true and has its unique story behind it.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.