Top 100 Great Music Quotes
#1. Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
Francois Truffaut
#2. All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
Steve Reich
#3. You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.
Big Sean
#4. Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.
Joshua Bell
#5. Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.
Seymour Stein
#6. Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!
Jeff Belanger
#7. I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Thomas A. Edison
#9. I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce
#10. When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
Flea
#11. If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.
Anthony Evans
#12. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.
Rebecca West
#13. I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
Randy Jackson
#14. I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen Latifah
#15. So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.
Stephen W. Thompson
#16. When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.
Woody Allen
#17. The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
Bono
#18. There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?
Paul Weller
#19. My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.
Luke Bryan
#20. Although we universally celebrate imagination, it is in fact a power that can uplift us and save us
or as easily demean and destroy us. Mozart imagined great music. Hitler imagined death camps and built them.
Dean Koontz
#21. I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
Peter Gabriel
#22. Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert
#23. Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.
Sting
#24. Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Tony Visconti
#25. Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.
Edward Norton
#26. I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
Ahmet Ertegun
#27. Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
Will Champion
#28. I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.
Burt Bacharach
#29. I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd not recognized that the truth in great music could be found also in great art, that the heart could be lifted and the mind sharpened equally by both.
Dean Koontz
#30. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
Bryan White
#31. Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
Billy Corgan
#32. What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
Mickey Hart
#33. People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music
Peter Tosh
#34. It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.
Steve Brown
#35. I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.
Luke Pritchard
#36. Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
Imelda May
#37. Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
Marya Mannes
#38. There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.
Pitbull
#39. I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.
Skrillex
#40. Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
Mel Brooks
#41. I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Jerry Harrison
#42. There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.
Michael Leunig
#43. We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.
Wynton Marsalis
#44. A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.
John Waters
#46. When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
Neal A. Maxwell
#47. When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.
Robert Glasper
#48. It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.
Erol Alkan
#49. A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
Moby
#50. I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
Katey Sagal
#51. For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift
#52. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.
Zander Sherman
#53. Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.
Tony DiSanto
#54. Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.
Joe Zawinul
#55. At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.
A-Trak
#56. Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#57. Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI
#58. I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
Robbie Robertson
#59. We cannot be satisfied with illustrative sermons, great music, and friendly services. We have been called to see the powers of darkness destroyed and our ruined cities restored.
Kris Vallotton
#60. Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.
Alison Brie
#61. Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
Kenny Rogers
#62. When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"
Jay-Z
#63. Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Thomas Beecham
#64. Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#65. My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.
Robert Palmer
#66. Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.
John Marin
#67. Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#68. Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?
Douglas Wynne
#69. My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
Chris Isaak
#70. Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
Anthony Burgess
#71. More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.
Ciara
#72. I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.
Woody Allen
#73. A drunken whore walks in a dark street at night, shedding snatches of song like petals. Was it in this that Anthony heard the heart-numbing strains of the great music which persuaded him to surrender for ever to the city he loved? The
Lawrence Durrell
#74. If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
B.o.B
#75. A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
Chris Stapleton
#76. It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.
Drake
#77. There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.
Miranda Lambert
#78. Today, I went on to my neighbor's house and told them, "You will listen to great music whether you like it or not.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#79. I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
Ina Garten
#80. In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
Sean O Faolain
#81. Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
Jan Karon
#82. There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.
Pharrell Williams
#83. Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
Christina Aguilera
#84. A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.
Vinny Appice
#85. I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.
Julie Andrews
#86. Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#87. I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.
Fiona Apple
#88. I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
Bruce Dickinson
#89. Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.
Vanessa L. Williams
#90. I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
Steven Adler
#91. Give a prayer of thanks for all you have. Work on your gratitude list. Listen to some great music. Watch the sun come up, or perhaps go for a quick walk in natural surroundings if you feel up to it.
Robin S. Sharma
#92. There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#93. We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
Abbey Lincoln
#94. Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.
Michael Jackson
#95. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.
Julia Child
#96. Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Ravi Shankar
#97. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.
Nayvadius Cash
#98. I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
Kaskade
#99. The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson
#100. I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.
Janelle Monae
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