Music Quotes

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

For me, music begins where words end.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun...

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can’t sing,I can always continue listening to it.

Love is friendship set to music.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

There is no such thing as happy music.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.