Music Quotes

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

The universe without music would be madness.

Kind words are the music of the world.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

Music is sonorous air.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I make music for the hips, not the head.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.