Music Quotes

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Music does not excite until it is performed.