Music Quotes

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

A lot of country music is sad.

My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first?

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.