Music Essence Quotes

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Just make good music.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core of country songs are very stripped down, and they tell a story in the most pure sense.

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

Music is just air moving around.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Some people say that if you do anything other than a straight-ahead groove, that it's not jazz. But that kind of labeling is wrong. Music is what it is; if it sounds good, it sounds good.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.