Music Quotes

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.

I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all original programming.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious

Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

After I had my youngest son,I took time for him and just spent more time with my family. But, I know it's time to get back to work. I am working on new music.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

I like music to soothe me.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

I love sequencing and programming, and I'm drawn to drum 'n' bass music. I love James Murphy's productions - and hey, he wears my socks!

Music is the crystallization of sound.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.