Quotes about Music

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

As I wander through the dark, encountering difficulties, I am aware of encouraging voices that murmur from the spirit realm. I sense a holy passion pouring down from the springs of Infinity. I thrill to music that beats with the pulses of God. Bound to suns and planets by invisible cords, I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.