Musical Devotion Quotes

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

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 the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands?

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

I've been playing music most of my life.

Since I was three, music's been my life.