Music Quotes

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I love music and I love to dance.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

Next to music beer was best.

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, 'I Love the 80s,' nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.