Music Quotes

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

There is no art without intention.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

A life without music is an error.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

I believe that through music we can help heal the world.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.