Music Is Great Quotes

#1. FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

Chelsea Leyland

#2. Great music is great music, period.

Ricky Skaggs

#3. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Ziggy Marley

#4. 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

#5. Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Tom Jones

#6. Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#7. Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Stjepan Hauser

#8. Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Jon Anderson

#9. Pop music is great, but there's a lot of BS about the attitude of guys being super-gangster - that's why the whole thing is silly. It's making fun of itself. That self-awareness is why people enjoy it. It's refreshing.

Emily Ratajkowski

#10. Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.

Solange Knowles

#11. Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Tom DeLonge

#12. If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Bryan Adams

#13. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

#14. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

One9

#15. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.

Denis Leary

#16. Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

David Gilmour

#17. Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

Nelson Mandela

#18. Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends ... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Adam Kluger

#19. My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Barry Manilow

#20. 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

#21. I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.

Stone Gossard

#22. It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

Wayne Coyne

#23. 'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#24. When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Lulu

#25. So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Jane Siberry

#26. I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ...

Cesar Rosas

#27. My only real requirement is that I like the projects to be good and I like the people that I work with to be really nice people and great people, and as long as that's the case the music is fun to do always.

Christopher Lennertz

#28. Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

#29. I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

Michael Nyman

#30. The truth is, I think country music ... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

Lee Brice

#31. Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

Alex Abreu

#32. Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

Michael Jackson

#33. The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards.

Thalia

#34. Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

Peter Hook

#35. A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Rich

#36. The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

John Philip Sousa

#37. Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.

Ryan Jarman

#38. Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

Brother Ali

#39. It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea
It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

Sara Teasdale

#40. Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Karolina Kurkova

#41. We hear a great deal about the German "Fatherland" - we like the sound. But the word "Father" is the whole of it. The "land" is nothing: the "Father" is key to the music.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#42. The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

Doug Flutie

#43. I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

Clive Davis

#44. Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

Cyndi Lauper

#45. As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

Raekwon

#46. Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

#47. But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Reba McEntire

#48. I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, I Love the 80s, nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

Evan Peters

#49. For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

Rick Derringer

#50. I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.

Melanie Chisholm

#51. Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Cameron Crowe

#52. My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.

Jim Morrison

#53. Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

Michael Franti

#54. 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

#55. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

Elvis Costello

#56. Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Henry Rollins

#57. Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Greg Lake

#58. Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.

Anonymous

#59. Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

Lara St. John

#60. Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

Flea

#61. New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

David Harewood

#62. I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

Jacob Artist

#63. There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.

Jenny Hval

#64. Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Vanessa L. Williams

#65. There is a great correlation between music and images.

Graham Nash

#66. Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

Kip Moore

#67. I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

Macy Gray

#68. The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

Franz Liszt

#69. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

Mark Hoppus

#70. 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

#71. I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

David Crosby

#72. After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

Stephen Fry

#73. It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself.

MC Serch

#74. [Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.

Jon Brion

#75. I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something that I really don't think is that great.

Trent Reznor

#76. Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Compay Segundo

#77. It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Rich Robinson

#78. I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Ian Jackson

#79. Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Christopher Ricks

#80. And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Joan Jett

#81. Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

Luther Allison

#82. Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Guy Berryman

#83. Playing music is such a great way to bring people together.

Tobias Segal

#84. The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Nadia Boulanger

#85. I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.

Paul Weller

#86. Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

Bette Midler

#87. I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

Zachary Cole Smith

#88. My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

Henry Rollins

#89. For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Jarvis Cocker

#90. No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.

Steven Price

#91. Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

Vivian Campbell

#92. Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

Zubin Mehta

#93. Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Marc Ribot

#94. For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

Jay-Z

#95. I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

Brian Austin Green

#96. I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no.

Billy Graham

#97. Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#98. I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Jason Aldean

#99. Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

Christian Scott

#100. Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

Dave Haywood