Music Quotes

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Laughter is the music of life.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

It's a holy city for music.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.