Music Quotes

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to what the emotions are that are aroused by the character of music.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.