Quotes About Music

#1. At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

Avijeet Das

#2. I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.

Willie Nelson

#3. Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

David Sanborn

#4. All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

Martin Gore

#5. The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

#6. My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Chris Isaak

#7. The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

Thom Yorke

#8. Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Elvis Presley

#9. The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

Anna Kendrick

#10. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.

Johnny Gimble

#11. In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Jerry Hunt

#12. I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Nancy Sinatra

#13. I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Brian May

#14. The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

Dar Williams

#15. I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don't worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.

Mark Applebaum

#16. I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

Donatella Versace

#17. It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

Rivers Cuomo

#18. MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view - and most important, to take pleasure in listening.

Joanne Lipman

#19. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Mina Loy

#20. I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

Lana Del Rey

#21. I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.

Gillian Jacobs

#22. The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

Alex Ebert

#23. Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

Kaki King

#24. Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#25. It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

Nic Sheff

#26. Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Erykah Badu

#27. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

John Berendt

#28. Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

Joshua Bell

#29. I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

King Tuff

#30. Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

Kailash Kher

#31. At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

Tyga

#32. If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

David Gilmour

#33. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.

Hunter Hayes

#34. I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

Martina Mcbride

#35. My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

David Crosby

#36. There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

Graham Nash

#37. The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

Nathaniel Branden

#38. In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was.

Bob Kauflin

#39. I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

John C. Reilly

#40. It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

Richard Rodgers

#41. In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Yoko Ono

#42. What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

Ernest Klein

#43. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

Marc Anthony

#44. I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

Sam Tsui

#45. When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

Pharrell Williams

#46. Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Dierks Bentley

#47. Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.

Will Sheff

#48. One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

Scott Yanow

#49. I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

Jenny Hval

#50. Until the day I don't breathe, I will create music.

Gift Of Gab

#51. I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

Julia Kent

#52. Music is an important part of my writing process.

Peter James

#53. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker

#54. I'm taking a break from music ... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

Melanie Laurent

#55. Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

Avicii

#56. I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Robert Glasper

#57. Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Jay-Z

#58. Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

William Westney

#59. I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

Bahman Ghobadi

#60. The heavenly motions ... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

Johannes Kepler

#61. About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Keith Richards

#62. Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

Warren G

#63. 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

#64. With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Matisyahu

#65. I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

Estelle

#66. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music
then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#67. When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Tina Weymouth

#68. When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

Carrie Underwood

#69. It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Earl Sweatshirt

#70. I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

Mark Edwards

#71. Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

Anthony Bourdain

#72. Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.

Madonna Ciccone

#73. Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Sarah Churchwell

#74. Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#75. I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

Ana Tijoux

#76. I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.

Will Estes

#77. I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

Natalia Kills

#78. Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

Clive Davis

#79. Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

Chuck Mangione

#80. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

Brad Paisley

#81. And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

Steve Forbert

#82. I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

Nikka Costa

#83. I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

Nikki Reed

#84. The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.

Bret McKenzie

#85. I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Aretha Franklin

#86. A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#87. You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

Henry Rollins

#88. 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

#89. No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Lydia M. Child

#90. Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Chanel Iman

#91. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

Elihu Burritt

#92. I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.

Ace Hood

#93. I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.

Sam McCandless

#94. [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

Charles Lloyd

#95. My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.

Jools Holland

#96. To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

Carrie Brownstein

#97. Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

Alicia Keys

#98. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

Ruth Brown

#99. I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.'

Grace Helbig

#100. I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not that I'm doing drugs.. I just love that feeling. Putting out a feeling and having it really be the one is more addicting than anything in my life now.

Drake