Music Quotes

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.