Music Has Quotes

#1. The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

H. John Poole

#2. What softened your heart?" I asked softly.
"Good music and a friend."
I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power"
"So does friendship," he supplied frankly.

Amy Harmon

#3. Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

Jane Seymour

#4. Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

Steven Morrissey

#5. I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Harrison Birtwistle

#6. Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Mariah Carey

#7. The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

Elvin Jones

#8. But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

Rob Sheffield

#9. Music has as many roles as people make it.

Ani DiFranco

#10. Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

Matt Berninger

#11. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

Tom Odell

#12. Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Charlie Daniels

#13. And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

Sarah McLachlan

#14. Music has the ability to comfort people.

Matthew Morrison

#15. You need to make the music strong, and the philosophy behind the music has to be solid. What the music exudes, what it emits, has to be very strong. It's your thinking that brings you things in life. Part of my philosophy to exceed starts right there.

David S. Ware

#16. Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Plato

#17. Music has always been in me.

Michelle Branch

#18. My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

R. Kelly

#19. To deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

Dessa Darling

#20. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.

David Nicholls

#21. A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

Itzhak Perlman

#22. Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Charles Hazlewood

#23. 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.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#24. I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.

Prince Royce

#25. I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Barry Manilow

#26. Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Taylor Hackford

#27. Music has no limits, borders or ages.

Thalia

#28. My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

Pauline Oliveros

#29. The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.

Sam Bush

#30. The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

Matt Cameron

#31. Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione

#32. That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.

Mike McCready

#33. Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

John Frusciante

#34. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

William Faulkner

#35. Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Joseph Joubert

#36. With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

#37. Music has gone the way of food. People want it fast and cheap and they don't care what it tastes like or where it comes from.

Yvonne Prinz

#38. I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

Aloe Blacc

#39. Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

William Boyd

#40. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

Q-Tip

#41. Practice and playing music has to be like a religious experience. It has to be your religion, you know; it has to be your trance. You get something from a devotion to it and digging deeper into yourself and the nature of reality.

Jonathan Harnum

#42. Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre ... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.

James Nares

#43. Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.

Haruki Murakami

#44. Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how long it's gonna take something to grow, you never know if you're gonna hit in a certain market.

Brantley Gilbert

#45. Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

#46. I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#47. Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

Oliver Sacks

#48. Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.

Mary Travers

#49. Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Nina Simone

#50. Music has the power to unite us. It proves that by working together, we can create something truly beautiful.

Pinchas Zukerman

#51. Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#52. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

Jimi Westbrook

#53. Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

Rabindranath Tagore

#54. Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights.

Balroop Singh

#55. I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

Don McLean

#56. If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

Paul Lansky

#57. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.

A. Lee Martinez

#58. I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Frank Zappa

#59. Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Lionel Richie

#60. To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

Morton Feldman

#61. Music has always been a huge part of my life.

Jessica Sanchez

#62. Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

Wayne Coyne

#63. You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

Andy Partridge

#64. Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

Ice-T

#65. For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Joshua Bell

#66. Music has always been around with me.

Eddie Murphy

#67. The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.

Aleksey Igudesman

#68. John Ottman's music has emerged ... as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

John Badham

#69. Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

Ice Cube

#70. When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Joseph Haydn

#71. Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

George Ogilvie

#72. Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Henry Rollins

#73. Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

Aristotle.

#74. Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Shaun White

#75. One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

Tod Machover

#76. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

Nick Hornby

#77. Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Hilary Rosen

#78. Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It is a fantastic language to help you explore ideas.

Planningtorock

#79. I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.

Daniel Powter

#80. There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Eddie Vedder

#81. To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

Michael Gungor

#82. I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

J. Tillman

#83. Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

Jacob Latimore

#84. We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

Gustavo Dudamel

#85. Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

L.A. Reid

#86. My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Trent Reznor

#87. I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

Keke Palmer

#88. Pop music has progressed.

Morrissey

#89. Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

Alexander Pope

#90. I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

Avril Lavigne

#91. Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Aristotle.

#92. Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

Alan Powell

#93. The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.

Paul Weller

#94. Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

Joshua Bell

#95. 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

#96. The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Assata Shakur

#97. I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

Ian Williams

#98. Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

Matt Tong

#99. The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.

Natasha Bedingfield

#100. Now there's us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but
it's ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.

Joss Whedon