Music Quotes

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Good music is good music.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Music is the key to the female heart.

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Composing music is what makes me happy.

I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.