Music Quotes

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Life is but a dream for the dead.

I lived for music since I could think.

Life without music is no life at all.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Music is a defining element of character.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

Music is the language of heaven.