Music Quotes

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I just truly want to live in this dream world that I've created. And I want everyone else to live in it with me, on stage, or in the music videos or listening to the music. I just try to be the girl that I really needed when I was 14.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.