Music Quotes

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

I love this young people's music.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.