Music Quotes

The more music you love, the happier you will be.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

Music has been in our family for generations.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.

Music is an incitement to love.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

I was addicted to playing music.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.