Music Definition Quotes

#1. The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Trey Anastasio

#2. Music (Definition; Noun): The artistic organization of sound for the joy and experience of listening.

Duane Hewitt

#3. I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Ed Droste

#4. When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.

Colin Dickey

#5. For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules.
By that definition, we are a hardcore band.

Jacob Bannon

#6. I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Will Smith

#8. Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Paul Copan

#9. Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

Robert Plant

#10. I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Keren Ann

#11. Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

#12. Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

Berenice Bejo

#13. Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Pete Seeger

#14. It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Martin

#15. If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles.

Dana Gould

#16. I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

Jimmy Carl Black

#17. We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

Ilya Prigogine

#18. The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

Wendell Phillips

#19. Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

Joshua Bell

#20. I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Thelonious Monk

#21. Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#22. I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

Ian MacKaye

#23. My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Taylor Swift

#24. What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life, a real life, without him.

Marisa De Los Santos

#25. We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

Ace Hood

#26. I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

Vance Gilbert

#27. A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Anthony De Mello

#28. What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

#29. Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

Ani DiFranco