Music Quotes

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Bells, the poor man's only music.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.

I like to incorporate all different elements into my music.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

As with any music that one feels quite close to, I'm very critical, too. I care a lot. I pay a lot of attention.

My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

I was raised around music.

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do something, a video. It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.