Music Quotes

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

I see my life in terms of music.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

Music is a fundamental human right

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.