Music Quotes

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

I'd love to develop a game and make the music for it. I'd love to do something based on Captain Lights. Who knows if that'll ever happen, but I'd love to do it.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

I like them old and rich.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

I've never been a junkie, and never will be. I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music. Always have done. It's not that unusual for girls of 26.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

I rather hate the whole digital world concerning music - nothing to touch, too many songs and no thread, no artwork etc., and no label to talk with and have support from.

I never want to be preachy in my music, just share thoughts, things I have learned.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.