Music Quotes

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

Music takes us where words cannot.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

The true artform is being a human being.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves his mustache, drastically changing his look.'

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

People use music as a utensil to better themselves.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

Everyone has a fantasy of what they want their band to sound like. However, because I knew nothing about making music, I was unable to describe what I wanted properly.

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.