Music Transcends Quotes

#1. As Duke Ellington once said, "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to "good" music transcends questions of genre.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

James Blunt

#3. Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Dayananda Saraswati

#4. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

Myself

#5. Music transcends the boundaries of language.

Heather Wolf

#6. I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

Jenny Lewis

#7. I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

Jennifer Nettles

#8. The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#9. Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded.

Donald E. Westlake

#10. I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Bellamy Young

#11. Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

Bat For Lashes

#12. I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Tony Hawk

#13. We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Vinoba Bhave

#14. Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. Music happens to be an art form that transcends language

Herbie Hancock

#16. Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current.

Holly Schindler

#17. Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.

David Amram

#18. I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Mark Heard

#19. I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#20. I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Mika.

#21. Their work is timeless. It transcends the bubblegum pap that passes for music now. A Beatles song is a flawlessly executed kata. Anything else is simply wrestling in Jell-O, he returned with disdain.

Rob Thurman

#22. In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.

Pankaj Mishra

#23. I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.

Pablo Casals

#24. It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

Kate Atkinson

#25. The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Gloria Estefan