Music Quotes

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.