Mark Heard: Quotes about music

Mark Heard was American musician and record producer. Explore interesting quotes on music.

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“Why pray to a god who would rather speak through say, a stone? Too bad that God made so many people who are interested in music and so few stones who are.”

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.”

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.”

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.”

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“Most Christians would say that the music should in some way glorify God. Obviously, one assortment of notes on the scale can't glorify God more than another. Neither can certain assortments of words. -Appalachian Melody.”

Liner Notes

“That's what music is about, and those are the types of experiences I value most in looking for the visceral and unidentifiable thing it is that makes music music, and not something else.”

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary