Music Quotes

If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

I'm willing to go wherever with this because music is everything to me. This is my world and how I see it. My music speaks for me in a way that's relatable and truthful.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

I've always hid behind the music despite the fact that I have a huge personality. I'm thrilled that the music is bigger than me and will outlive and outlast me. It frees me up to take risks.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Music is an addiction.

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.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

Great music is great music, period.

G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different person. It made me who I am today.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there’s nothing better than that.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.