Music Creation Quotes

#1. If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Cecil Taylor

#2. You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

Swizz Beatz

#3. Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

Emeril Lagasse

#4. In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

Sigurd F. Olson

#5. Genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Shreya Ghoshal

#7. I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!

Madonna Ciccone

#8. Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.

Bryan Islip

#9. The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the creation of music which would slow down the brainwaves, so inducing a state similar to when we mediate.

John R. Levine

#10. Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.

Emil Cioran

#11. 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

#12. Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Courtney Love

#13. The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.

Jonathan Larson

#14. Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

Robert Farrar Capon

#15. Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

River Phoenix

#16. Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

Billy Joel

#17. When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it's true. It's like all art and creation: You're completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

Cory Monteith

#18. All dancers are creator,and all dancers are creats own world,to produce with music or rythm.

Avani Pagar

#19. There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Earle Brown

#20. Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#21. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God

Albert Ayler

#22. Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

Justin Timberlake

#23. No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras

#24. I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#26. The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Richard Wagner

#27. I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.

Zach Condon

#28. Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

Wm. Paul Young

#29. We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

#30. The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

Deke Sharon

#31. The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

Pattiann Rogers

#32. In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation ... as music.

Roy H. Williams

#33. God's signature is not just in the cell, it's in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.

Frank Turek

#34. Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

Jackson Browne

#35. Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

Michael Jackson

#36. In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.

Machel Montano

#37. Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain

Lyn Crain

#38. There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Umberto Boccioni

#39. Within the body there is played
Music unending, though without stringed instruments
That music of the Word pervades the entire creation
Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Kabir

#40. No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

Harry Shearer

#42. Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, This is great!

Lisa Samson

#43. And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
Sweet music breathes
in wave, or bird, or soul
'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

Frances Sargent Osgood

#44. Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#45. The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

Charles Frankel

#46. This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.

Bryan Islip

#47. Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Burning Spear

#48. Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#49. I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.

Mitch Albom

#50. I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

Robert Plant

#51. It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe