Music Quotes

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into nothing and go down a quantum hole.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

Music is the universal language.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

I prefer Independent music, in which we have control to our music.

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

Music first, music last, music always

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.