I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. Neil Young on music
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger. Neil Young on music
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. Neil Young on music
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. Neil Young on music
The thing about my music is, there really is no point. Neil Young on music
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. Neil Young on music
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. Boethius on music
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? Neil Young on music
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. Harry Connick, Jr. on music
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians. Harry Connick, Jr. on music
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. Renee Fleming on music
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. Dick Dale on music
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. Felix Mendelssohn on music
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose on music
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. Miguel de Cervantes on music
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. Charlie Parker on music
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. Billy Joel on music