Music Quotes

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

I am really addicted to music.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.