Music Quotes

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Nobody can hear you read music.

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

We all can dance when we find music that we love.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Everybody wants to make better music.