Music Quotes

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Rests always sound well.

Music is another planet.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

The earth has music for those who listen.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction I want from the crowd.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.