Music Instinct Quotes

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I feel like in every situation in life, I just always end up singing, like, anywhere.

If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.