Music Quotes

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.

As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

Music without a message is just sound

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

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.

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