Music Quotes

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

If you’re not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

The man that hath no music in himself

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

Your cadence is your music.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Music has always been transnational.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.