Music Quotes

I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

Music keeps people sane.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.