Music Quotes

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

Music is the healing force of the universe.

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

I grew up with reggae music.