Music's Quotes

#1. Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Elliott Yamin

#2. Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Price

#3. Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell

#4. Music's the medicine of the mind.

John A. Logan

#5. [At a musical concert:] ... the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Conrad Aiken

#6. I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

George Strait

#7. What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle

#8. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Clare Bowen

#9. Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Euripides

#10. I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

Grimes

#11. We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Freddie Mercury

#12. "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Dar Williams

#13. The profound meaning of music's essential aim ... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Igor Stravinsky

#14. Music isn't just a bunch of notes strung together, sweetheart. It's life. It's memory. Songs trigger specific and often predictable emotional reactions. Music's an expression of emotion, desires.

J.D. Robb

#15. To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

Nick Tosches

#16. I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

Trent Reznor

#17. Music's power is like love's power: one can feel but never understand it.

Marty Rubin

#18. A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

Jon Secada

#19. In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Mike Figgis

#20. Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

John Lennon

#21. Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Youssou N'Dour

#22. I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

Bobby Womack

#23. Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Kenny Chesney

#24. Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

James McCartney

#25. Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Jon Landau

#26. But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

Sun Ra

#27. I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

Stephen Costello

#28. Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Robert Wyatt

#29. The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

David Foster Wallace

#30. People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really ... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Serj Tankian

#31. The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

James Horner

#32. Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions ... Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Ellen Hunnicutt

#33. 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

#34. Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Ray Charles

#35. Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

Crowder

#36. Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

Josh Homme

#37. Music's a wood you walk through.

David Mitchell

#38. In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

Aubrey Thomas De Vere

#39. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.

John Henry Newman

#40. Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

#41. It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Artur Schnabel

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

Jon Anderson

#43. I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Jeff Buckley

#44. My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Casey James

#45. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

Hunter Hayes

#46. Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

Russell Crowe

#47. Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Igor Stravinsky

#48. Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

Lou Reed

#49. If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Brad Paisley

#50. we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested.

Fred Moten

#51. Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Dwight Yoakam

#52. Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

Thomas Gray

#53. I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

Glenn Gould

#54. Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

John Keats

#55. Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.

David Mitchell

#56. It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Richard Wagner

#57. The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

Mick Jagger

#58. There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

Bill Conti

#59. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

Sufjan Stevens

#60. I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

Enrique Iglesias

#61. It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Richard D. James

#62. Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Alexander McQueen

#63. I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking or fighting or loving the United States or talking about God, and the music's simple mostly.

Brian Allen Carr

#64. Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Kristin Hersh

#65. I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

Gin Wigmore

#66. Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Russell Howard

#67. Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Ville Valo

#68. As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

Taryn Manning

#69. I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

Chris Stapleton

#70. On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that's what music's for.

Madonna Ciccone

#71. Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

Tom Waits

#72. I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to.

Ella Henderson

#73. So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Josh Homme

#74. I'm wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it's masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music's great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.

Todd Snider

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

Bat For Lashes

#76. [L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

Jenefer Robinson

#77. I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

Johnny Marr

#78. Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Alicia Keys

#79. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

Donal Henahan

#80. I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music's so soulful ... I think Kanye West is a genius musically.

Tika Sumpter

#81. To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.

Gary Allan

#82. Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

Julian Lennon

#83. Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

Mike Dirnt

#84. I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

Eddie Vedder

#85. Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Eddie Vedder

#86. Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

#87. A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Stone Gossard

#88. Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

Eric Church

#89. This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth.

Howard Goodall

#90. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles De Lint

#91. I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.

Elton John

#92. Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

#93. I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas

#94. I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

Conrad Sewell

#95. I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music ... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.

Pauly D

#96. Music's another big love of mine.

Thomas Sangster

#97. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.

William Shakespeare

#98. Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#99. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

Jessye Norman

#100. Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Derek Bailey