Top 100 For Music Quotes
#1. But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
Georg Solti
#2. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
Stephen Malkmus
#3. It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
Ozzy Osbourne
#4. Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed ...
Hendrik Lenstra
#5. You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina Aguilera
#6. Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#7. One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
Natalie Cole
#8. I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.
Grant Gustin
#9. The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
Anthony Kiedis
#10. If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.
Gary Arnold
#11. I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
Mike Figgis
#12. It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living ... Music is essential for my life.
Armin Van Buuren
#13. If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
Tina Weymouth
#14. I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.
Mark Ronson
#15. When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
Liz Phair
#16. My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
Chris Milk
#17. He is remembering," I say.
"Remembering what?"
"It's a word I use for praying. Sometimes it's like waiting for music to come out of the silence.
Francisco X Stork
#19. When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson
#21. Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.
Jennifer Lee
#22. To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
Ashley Monroe
#23. I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.
Rob Sheffield
#24. I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.
Todd Rundgren
#25. The key to becoming a proactive influence for music education is the development of a "dream list." It is more often referred to as a long-term plan. Do you know what you want your program to look like in the next five years? Ten years? Start now!
John Benham
#26. I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.
Aaron Watson
#27. I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
John Lydon
#28. Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
Debbie Harry
#29. My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
Naya Rivera
#30. I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.
Jason Mraz
#31. I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.
Hunter Hayes
#32. I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
Barry Manilow
#33. And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#34. I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
Cass McCombs
#35. Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.
Andrea Bocelli
#36. Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.
Adam Schlesinger
#37. I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
Dennis Brown
#38. Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
Adam Kluger
#40. I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
Joaquin Phoenix
#41. People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
Estelle
#42. Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Wynton Marsalis
#43. My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.
Chris Milk
#44. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
Kenneth Edmonds
#45. What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
Tom Waits
#46. I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
Malorie Blackman
#47. I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.
Mike Huckabee
#48. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
#49. Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.
Tom Glazer
#50. I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.
Curtis Jackson
#51. I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.
Dhanush
#52. I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
Cliff Martinez
#53. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.
Vinnie Vincent
#54. I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.
Bryan Greenberg
#55. The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
Florence Welch
#56. Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.
Sheryl Crow
#57. So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.
Josh Homme
#58. I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Kaskade
#59. I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
Tim Heidecker
#60. An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#61. I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
Tom Jenkinson
#62. I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.
Clive Davis
#63. What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.
Taylor Ho Bynum
#64. As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.
Laura Lippman
#65. The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
Dar Williams
#66. We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
Michael Giles
#67. I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie ... it's all some kind of an escape.
M. Ward
#68. I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life.
Sean Mackin
#69. If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
Mark Helprin
#70. Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Benjamin Disraeli
#71. The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
#72. I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music ... healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!
Judy Collins
#73. For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
Hilary Rosen
#74. Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
Jason McCoy
#76. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
Harry Connick Jr.
#77. Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
Elliott Yamin
#78. In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
#79. People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill Gates
#80. The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."
Stanley Donwood
#81. What a shitty way to go through life, hiding your love for music so that people don't think the wrong things about you.
Ahmir Questlove Thompson
#82. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
Billy Sheehan
#84. Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick
#85. Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Chad Hurley
#86. Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
#87. In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
J. D. Souther
#88. I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'
Robbie Robertson
#89. Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.
Eric Weiner
#90. Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
Enrique Iglesias
#91. I trust no one who hasn't time for music.
Jack White
#92. My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.
Sean Combs
#93. India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
Amish Tripathi
#94. Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
Jesse Johnson
#95. What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#96. The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.
Russell Sherman
#97. I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.
Paul Gambaccini
#98. See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
Jerry Garcia
#99. I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.
Stanley Clarke
#100. The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton
