We have collected the best Music Quotes by famous authors including Lil Durk, Prince, Ludwig van Beethoven, Quentin Tarantino, Al Green and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
I let my team pick what order the records go. I don’t pick my own records. I’m a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.
Lil Durk
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Prince
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
Quentin Tarantino
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
Al Green
If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.
Aaron Judge
Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.
Giuseppe Zanotti
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Kim Fields
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
Pete Townshend
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Claude Debussy
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.
Jay-Z
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
Snoop Dogg
No matter where I’m at in life, whether I’m in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can’t act too hard about that.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
Roy Ayers
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
King Krule
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar Wilde
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
Mel Brooks
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Adam Braun
Well, I didn’t really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
Daisy Berkowitz
Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
Grace Slick
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
Novak Djokovic
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It’s my coping mechanism.
Tessanne Chin
When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.
Joey Jordison
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Boethius
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
Charlie Puth
I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.
GRiZ
I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.
Jeff Buckley
It’s the music that brings us together.
John Oates
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world.
Daniel Barenboim
It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
David Lee Roth
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you’re cheating yourself out of a really good time.
Steve Vai
My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music.
Shirley Ballas
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
Conrad Hall
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.
Mani Ratnam
With the Neal Morse Band, we’re doing progressive music with a harder edge; it’s a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it’s more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
Mike Portnoy
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
Shawn Mendes
Here’s how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it’s music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
John Lydon
My dad’s name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
Lil Nas X
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
Bill Walton
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
Willie Nelson
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
Barack Obama
I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
Adele
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.
Sting
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have – one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
Aaron Diehl
Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.
Tulsi Kumar
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Music my rampart, and my only one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
No, I can’t do rap music!
Dolly Parton
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Lauryn Hill
I don’t like to talk about typical things in my music – my music is more about real life situations.
R-Truth
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Prince
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful. Artistically I’m not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I’m not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Bonnie Raitt
I think the ’60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the ’70s, it just kind of became… mellow.
Angus Young
We started out because we love music and dancing.
J-Hope
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
A. J. McLean
Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
Yoko Ono
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
Jessica Mauboy
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka
Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.
David Sanborn
When we say ‘Blackpink in your area,’ we’re literally saying we’re in your area with good music, with good energy – we’re here for you.
Jennie
What’s missing from pop music is danger.
Prince
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
Finn Wolfhard
A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Felicity Jones
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Ennio Morricone
I’m always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
Meek Mill
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
Lil Uzi Vert
If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.
Asha Bhosle
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’
John Cage
I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords. But I also have a thing for bubbly lullaby music. Kind of like ice-cream truck rap.
Doja Cat
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
Gautham Menon
You can’t save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.
Brandon Flowers
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
Eminem
When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
Eli Wallach
‘Climb Every Mountain’ is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think ‘The Sound of Music’ is saccharine, but I think it’s profound. The message, that we can’t accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Dexter Gordon
The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I’m left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.
Yungblud
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
Eddie Van Halen
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
Kailash Kher
If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Anne Lamott
Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad Bunny
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
Chris Stapleton
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder
I really enjoy dancing. When there’s music around, I can’t help it; I start dancing, especially when I’m with friends.
Cameron Monaghan
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith
I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don’t stress about it. I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Grammy, and I’m OK with that.
Selena Gomez
Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.
Rudolf Steiner
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
Max Martin
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
Armin van Buuren
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.
Mike Portnoy
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z
Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
Rihanna
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
Kurt Cobain
Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.
Juice Wrld
Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix
If you put out quality music, you’re always going to be in a good place.
Romeo Santos
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliott
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Billy Corgan
That’s country music for you – bourbon and the Bible.
Dave Haywood
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
Bonnie Raitt
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Michelle Branch
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Dexter Gordon
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
Matthew McConaughey
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana
We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.
J-Hope
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Taylor Hawkins
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
Michael Kors
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
I feel sexy when I’m natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.
Lotte Verbeek
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
Joey Ramone
Everything I do, I’m always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I’m playing music. When I’m showering, I’ve got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.
Aaron Judge
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
Arvo Part
One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
Allison Williams
Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Taika Waititi
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.
Agnes Obel
I’m a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
A. J. McLean
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
Joan Smalls
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
You don’t have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.
Jisoo
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
Andrea Bocelli
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen
Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.
Hardwell
It’s always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don’t know where it comes from, it’s just there and I don’t question it.
Miles Davis
Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.
Tyler, The Creator
‘Downward Spiral’ felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I’d explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.
Trent Reznor
Music is something that should give you peace.
Atif Aslam
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
Doc Watson
I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
Tyler, The Creator
A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.
David Lynch
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
Chuck D
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
Robert Moog
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Mickey Hart
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Music has no language. That’s something I’ve come to believe in even more ever since ‘Kolaveri Di’ happened. I don’t deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.
Anirudh Ravichander
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Maria Mitchell
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Morgan Freeman
I got the idea for ‘Throne of Glass’ when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the ‘Cinderella’ soundtrack, I thought, ‘What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn’t mind kicking butt?’
Sarah J. Maas
We all love musical architecture; there’s no doubt about that.
Levon Helm
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
Adele
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
Ravi Shankar
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
Mencius
You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
Vikramaditya Motwane
Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.
Kirk Franklin
Music can be just one-sided if you hear it, but if you see it with a visual and an image, it opens up a whole new world. I feel like it’s all connected.
Jennie
In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
Pico Iyer
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.
Romeo Santos
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg
We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ beautifully.
Suga
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
Paul Epworth
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
My audience went, ‘Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?’ And then they went, ‘Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.’ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
Lady Gaga
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
Anderson Paak
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Paul Rodgers
My music is evidence of my soul’s will to live.
Charles Mingus
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
Michio Kaku
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
Music is there to get you through life’s ups and downs, good times and not so good times.
Rob Halford
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Berry Gordy
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana
Pop music will never be low brow.
Lady Gaga
The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group… Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.
Miles Davis
I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.
Karol G
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Brian Harris
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music.
Roy H. Williams
I don’t need anybody to market or promote me. If people don’t want to hear this music, then it’s not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Lauryn Hill
I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
Confucius
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Paul Auster
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
Goapele
When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it’s the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.
Dua Lipa
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
Prince
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
Ringo Starr
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Thomas Beecham
I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
Travis Scott
Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.
MC Ren
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
Sean Hayes
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
Bernice King
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Joan Miro
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
Nobuo Uematsu
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Christina Milian
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
Ozzy Osbourne
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
George Gershwin
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley
I’ve heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
Ashley McBryde
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.
Van Morrison
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
Nate Dogg
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
Alia Shawkat
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
Leah LaBelle
There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.
Post Malone
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
Ilaiyaraaja
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
Michael J. Fox
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Alvar Aalto
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
Ray Charles
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.
Bill Laswell
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker… listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.
Gordon B. Hinckley
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.
Ilaiyaraaja
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You don’t get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it’s unnatural to have music. I always feel it’s unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
Joe Hisaishi
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
Dua Lipa
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
Enya
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Wynton Marsalis
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
Sam Hunt
Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.
Koko Taylor
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
Eddie Van Halen
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
Max Minghella
I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
Mitski
I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening – the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
John Coltrane
Great music is great music. It doesn’t matter what genre it belongs.
Stjepan Hauser
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
Peabo Bryson
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
Shreya Ghoshal
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
Dimebag Darrell
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman
I listen to old music, man.
Ghostface Killah
When I was 20, I was the hustler – rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.
E-40
I like music that expresses what I think.
Ludovico Einaudi
Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
Mitski
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
Keith Richards
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.
Melanie Martinez
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
Shakira
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
Alan Greenspan
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.
Sonia Sotomayor
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
Chelsea Leyland
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Ace Frehley
My love for dance music started when I was a child. Some of my earliest memories are hearing Trance music in the charts and later being heavily influenced by the eclectic tastes of my big brother, he quickly turned me into an avid Drum ‘n’ Bass head even though I was too young to rave.
Becky Hill
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Enya
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night – without phone calls disturbing me.
A. R. Rahman
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same – where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.
Aaron Dessner
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.
Missy Elliott
I’ve always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I’ve been lucky about is I didn’t bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.
Dua Lipa
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
Ellen G. White
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we – it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
Joshua Bell
What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.
Ozzy Osbourne
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Music is what I love to do; it’s in my veins.
Demi Lovato
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole
Music is a tool that brings people together.
Jon Batiste
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young
My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Macklemore
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
Varg Vikernes
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians’ breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
Allen Ginsberg
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe
I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I’m really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
RM
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
Bjork
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Bryan Adams
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yanni
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
Miles Davis
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
I don’t even listen to peoples’ music… I’m really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.
DaBaby
Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
Yoko Ono
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
Vangelis
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Arturo Toscanini
I think the impact my music has had on dance music fans is to bring out their inner love for dancing and having a good time.
Hardwell
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith
Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David Bowie
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
John Keats
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna Summer
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.
Kerry James Marshall
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.
Fantastic Negrito
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
Lionel Richie
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It’s the verbal music of the piece.
Peter Shaffer
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Charles Kennedy
When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Clint Eastwood
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
Taylor Swift
Every song is like a painting.
Dick Dale
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Louis Armstrong
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
Enya
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
Claudio Monteverdi
Music happens. It cannot be made.
Ilaiyaraaja
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents’ passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It’s no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
Burning Spear
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
Beth Ditto
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
Kendrick Lamar
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.
Demi Lovato
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
Lenny Kravitz
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like, ‘I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
MF Doom
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.
Dana Loesch
I love pop music. It’s not easy to write a good pop song.
John Lydon
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
You know, music is sex. It’s a sensual driving mode that affects people if it’s played a certain way.
Dick Dale
Music is made one of Satan’s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
Ellen G. White
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
Ken Watanabe
Music is the medicine of the mind.
John A. Logan
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
Rosalia
God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.
Jose Feliciano
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It’s not just entertainment. There’s an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Ziggy Marley
Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Lauryn Hill
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Joel Madden
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan
The sense of jubilee for music and what we’re making is always genuine.
Florence Welch
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.
Travis Scott
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we’re the laptop generation.
David Guetta
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard
I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
Kevin Gates
Country’s hip; it’s cool music.
Ricky Skaggs
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
Neha Bhasin
Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.
Spike Lee
I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.
Neeraj Chopra
My music must reflect whatever’s going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I’m becoming.
Shania Twain
Music is about textures as well as melody.
Ken Hill
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
Lil Peep
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton
It’s a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.
Rob Halford
Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.
J Balvin
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.
Jay Griffiths
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
If you’re only a fan of the old music, that music’s gonna wind up sounding even older.
Johnny Van Zant
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
Pauly D
Life got very good – we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff – drums, a PC, turntables.
Anderson Paak
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady Gaga
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
Taylor Swift
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You can’t do that with classical.
Serj Tankian
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry Rollins
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It’s more outward-looking music than introspective.
James Righton
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan
I enjoy ‘down South’ music.
Lil Uzi Vert
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Ravi Shankar
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
John Lydon
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.
Stephen Sondheim
I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.
Momo Hirai
If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Kylie Minogue
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
My liberty is about living. It’s about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn’t reflect that. But now it’s different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
Snoop Dogg
But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
Ice Cube
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
Kenny G
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
When Kubrick called me about ‘The Shining,’ it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about ‘The Awakening of Jacob,’ which he did use in ‘The Shining.’
Krzysztof Penderecki
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
Travis Scott
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
Andris Nelsons
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
Sting
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’.
Bob Newhart
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
Give me a laundry-list and I’ll set it to music.
Gioachino Rossini
The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.
Joey Jordison
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I’ve always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
Rex Orange County
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Samuel Goldwyn
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I’ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
Clive Davis
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
As a New Yorker you can’t help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.
Moby
I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.
21 Savage
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
Charlie Parker
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.
Guru Randhawa
I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.
Katy Perry
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
Chris Gabrieli
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Morrissey
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn’t accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.
Leon Bridges
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
J. Cole
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
Nick Cave
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you’re bound to do great things with it.
Frank Iero
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
Bob Dylan
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.
Dan Reynolds
My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.
Ilaiyaraaja
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.
Mike McCready
Music really is our daily medicine.
Evelyn Glennie
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Henry Rollins
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.
Jill Scott
To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
Viggo Mortensen
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
For me, fragrances are very – one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It’s what you want to smell like, it’s memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you’re a lover of scent, it’s a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
Chris Pine
Live music is proof that there’s some things the Internet can’t kill. In our lifetime, we’re going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won’t be one of them.
Jim James
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Keith Richards
Music is the biggest tool of revolution – the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.
Kailash Kher
I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.
Lil Baby
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
Yungblud
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
David Josiah Brewer
I don’t listen to music. I don’t watch television, I don’t read.
Nigel Farage
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.
Donny Hathaway
My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles
You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Ken Robinson
Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.
Anupam Roy
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
I wasn’t thrilled about ‘The Sound Of Music’ – not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn’t my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.
Christopher Plummer
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I’m relating to them something that’s quite personal.
Enya
I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Ted Cruz
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
Armin van Buuren
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.
Psy
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.
Bruce Beresford
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
Kygo
I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.
Melanie Martinez
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Franz Liszt
I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.
Ilaiyaraaja
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum
Many people work behind a music project, but hardly get recognised.
Gopi Sundar
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
Nina Simone
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld
Wine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine.
Mike D
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
J-Hope
I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn’t take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify.
Daniel Ek
I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall… No! No, it was Stonewall – it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 – oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out.
Marsha P. Johnson
Music is therapy for me. It’s my outlet for every negative thing I’ve ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
Amy Lee
Great music is great music. It doesn’t matter what genre it belongs.
Stjepan Hauser
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
Richard Strauss
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.
Eminem
All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her ‘ear’ – the understanding and recognition of musical elements – for guidance.
Steve Vai
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
Billy Collins
I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
Taylor Swift
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’re got music.
Sid Vicious
With ‘Location’ and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that’s something I really love and am blown away by.
Khalid
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.
Norman Borlaug
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.
Ilaiyaraaja
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.
Tiesto
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
George Szell
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David Bowie
Reggae music don’t really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don’t mean black people. It mean people in general.
Burning Spear
