Music Quotes

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

My whole thing is just being a part of good music.

I'm so passionate about making good music.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.