Top 100 Quotes About About Music
#1. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
#2. We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
Lauryn Hill
#3. When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.
John Lurie
#4. I want to be a person crazy about music.
Minzy
#5. I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
Michael Schenker
#6. The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
Mike Figgis
#7. I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
Walton Goggins
#8. I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Tim Gane
#9. The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
Richard Baker
#10. See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
John Fahey
#11. What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Stephan Jenkins
#12. In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
Brian Austin Green
#13. It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.
Tommy Mottola
#14. I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.
Michael Moriarty
#15. I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.
Robert Palmer
#16. I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.
Frankie Knuckles
#17. I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?
Nayvadius Cash
#18. I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
Minnie Driver
#19. Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.
Dustin Diamond
#20. As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.
Lou Doillon
#21. For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.
Geoff Zanelli
#22. I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.
Joe Swanberg
#23. We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.
Kanye West
#24. L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
Joe Perry
#25. You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.
Bill Bruford
#26. That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
LL Cool J
#27. He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.
Judy Woodruff
#28. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
Jonny Greenwood
#29. I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
Tom Odell
#30. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
Ellen DeGeneres
#31. I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.
Dean Wareham
#32. The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.
Hiromi
#33. I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.
Jacques Villeneuve
#34. I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
Coleman Hawkins
#35. What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld
#36. 'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
Russell Crowe
#37. My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
Elvis Costello
#38. What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer.
John Lurie
#39. One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma
#40. I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.
Benny Carter
#41. You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
Mark Lanegan
#42. 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
Iggy Pop
#43. My parents were very relaxed about music.
Agnes Obel
#46. I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.
John Densmore
#47. The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole
#48. What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell
#49. My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.
DJ Shadow
#50. I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
Jennifer Lopez
#51. If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.
Michala Petri
#52. I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
A.R. Rahman
#53. What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.
John Ashbery
#54. I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.
Amos Lee
#55. I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.
Tony Bennett
#57. Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.
James Vincent McMorrow
#58. When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
Blixa Bargeld
#59. I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
Ariel Pink
#60. A lot of people would say "well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy" and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
Joan Jett
#61. That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.
Matt Corby
#62. I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
Yelawolf
#63. One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward
#64. I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.
Justin Townes Earle
#65. That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
Dave Grohl
#66. I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
Sam Hunt
#67. There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Tom Lehrer
#68. The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.
Wu Han
#69. That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
Mark Ruffalo
#70. I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#71. There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
Aaron Copland
#72. The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
Diana Krall
#73. People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
Elvis Costello
#74. That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.
Michael Penn
#75. I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
Twyla Tharp
#76. I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book.
David Toop
#77. What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
Stephen Malkmus
#78. I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
Simon McBurney
#79. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
#80. I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
R. Kelly
#81. I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
Brian Eno
#82. Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#83. I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
Otis Blackwell
#84. At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.
Lenny Kravitz
#85. You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
Cecil Taylor
#86. I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
Ani DiFranco
#87. That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#88. The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian
#89. I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.
Girl Talk
#90. When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
Valerie June
#91. Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
Jimmy Page
#92. Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Berry Gordy
#93. I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
Bruce Pavitt
#94. When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.
Kieron Gillen
#95. MTV used to be about music, chickpea," he'd say. "Music. Now it's about morons doing moronic things. Video didn't just kill the radio star, it damn near killed talent. You better run? You better cry, more like it.
Lexxie Couper
#96. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
Billy Sheehan
#97. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.
Rafal Blechacz
#98. Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Michael Azerrad
#99. The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
Branford Marsalis
#100. There was something vampiric about. music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don't believe in the supernatural ... the way harmony could be layered upon harmony until you felt yourself dissolving in the sound. So eloquent of dread it was, this music.
Anne Rice
