Music Quotes

"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note -
and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it."

I really only listen to like, German death reggae, and Halloween sound effects records from the 1950s. And Bette Midler. Obviously.

We kill for lies, kill for lies.
Murder our love to save our pride
We kill for lies, kill for lies
Love poisons truth, Love suicides.

"Well I wrote your name and burnt it, to see the colour of the flame. And it burnt up the whole spectrum, as if you were everything."

Love is a friendship set to music.

Music is literally the spine of everyone's life.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Sitting up in a spaceship,
looking down at the earth,
you wonder,
what they're all struggling for,
what's it all really worth?

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to walk with you again.

You make all these fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

But even the sturdiest ground can shift and tremble and let us fall down.

And my head told my heart 'let love grow,' but my heart told my head 'this time, no.'

When you’re alone a lot and it doesn’t go the way you want outside, you make it the way you want inside.

I just live, and I live through music. And there is so much living to be done.

Take the risks, fight the good fight, never be afraid to be a loner, for that is precisely where you will find community. Risk is the fountain of youth and the fire of transformation. It’s all about alchemy — learning how to transform the basest shit into the purest of gold, and these days, we are sorely in need of master musicians.

that day i learned there is nothing in the world a straight up music geek could ever say to an artist that will knock that artist off their feet the same way that artist knocks us off our feet when we hear their music. as hard as we try to return the favor, we just better off with giving them dap and keeping it moving.

And so we find ourselves observing the strange situation in which MTV is trying to be the next Myspace while Myspace is trying to be like MTV.