Music Quotes

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

I'm into scales right now.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I don't listen to my own music, so to me it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I went to a Karaoke Bar last night that didn't play any 70s music, at first I was afriad, oh I was petrified

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.