Music Quotes

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...