Music Quotes

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

Let the music speak for itself.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the heart. The fans are what connect the essence of the music around the world and keep the us alive.

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.