Music Quotes

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

My music is not lovely.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

You have to give people something to dream on.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.