Music Quotes

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

I love jazz music and sad music.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

The music is in minors.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

There is only one better thing than music - live music.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

Music is inarticulate poesy.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Music is love in search of a voice.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

I really love music but I've always wanted to act.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.