Music Quotes

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

English music is white - it evades everything.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.