Top 100 Quotes About Music Music
#1. What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ...
Anton Webern
#2. We are all touched by music. Music connects us.
Awen Finn
#3. And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
Philip K. Dick
#4. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo
#5. Coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.
Sandra Bernhard
#6. Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A.P.
#7. I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
Ronaldinho
#8. We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
Barry White
#9. There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself ... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
John Coltrane
#10. I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.
Rick James
#11. Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.
Peter Doig
#12. Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.
Pete Townshend
#13. You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
A. J. McLean
#15. I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.
Sam McCandless
#16. Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
Jean Cocteau
#17. Judy, I read that you said your first memory was music. Music that fills up a home. And one day, suddenly the music could escape through a window. For the rest of your life, you had to chase it.
Ava Dellaira
#18. Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.
Maira Kalman
#19. We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.
Karen Armstrong
#20. And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!
Thomas Keller
#21. Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
John Dryden
#22. Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
Noel Gallagher
#23. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.
Lita Ford
#24. You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.
Frank Fairfield
#25. For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.
Taylor Kitsch
#26. Music? Music is life! It's physical emotion - you can touch it! It's neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it's boring? You don't have time for it?
Isaac Marion
#27. These days I'm missing everything. I'm haunted by music; music I can hear, but never play again. Melodies that taunt me note by note, mocking me with the simple fact that they exist.
Katja Millay
#28. Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#29. I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.
Kevin Gates
#30. There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.
David Byrne
#31. I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
Bo Bice
#32. I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
Fantasia Barrino
#33. I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
Hector Berlioz
#35. Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad ...
John Keats
#36. I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#37. Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.
Johnny Depp
#38. You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#39. I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
Schoolboy Q
#40. I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
Robert Fripp
#41. I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#42. Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
Frank Zappa
#43. Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
Ice Cube
#44. I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
Bahman Ghobadi
#45. I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.
Sean Kingston
#46. May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
James Joseph Sylvester
#47. I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.
Big K.R.I.T.
#48. We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
Twyla Tharp
#49. I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
Will.i.am
#50. I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part ... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
Barry Manilow
#51. I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.
Lana Del Rey
#52. No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.
Fredric Lieberman
#53. Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.
Bill Withers
#54. I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
John McLaughlin
#55. I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.
Cher Lloyd
#56. I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nina Simone
#57. Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
Henry Rollins
#58. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
Jeremy Shada
#59. 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
#60. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
Ellie Goulding
#61. I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
Robin Gibb
#62. Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.
Kaskade
#63. Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
Albert Collins
#64. I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
John Niven
#65. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
Eric Kripke
#66. 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
#67. The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music ... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
Richard Eyre
#68. 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
#69. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
Becky G
#70. 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
#71. The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger
#72. I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!
Fiona Apple
#73. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.
Michel Martelly
#74. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
John Scofield
#75. I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
Jessie Ware
#76. I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.
Tori Kelly
#77. Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.
Tyga
#78. I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
Robbie Robertson
#81. Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
Hermann Hesse
#82. It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.
Tom Waits
#84. Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.
Joe Perry
#85. I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.
Martin Gore
#86. It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.
Jon Crosby
#87. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.
Trey Songz
#88. Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#89. When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.
Robert Cheeke
#90. As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
Jake Bugg
#91. I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
Bobby Sherman
#92. That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
A.R. Rahman
#93. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#94. It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Voltaire
#95. Rule #1: No cut or compromise should be suggested by ANY member of the community. This includes the music coalition, music educators, and the music supervisor.
Suggest a cut or compromise, and you become responsible for the decision.
John Benham
#96. The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
#97. I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.
Sonny Rollins
#98. I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#99. Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It's a drug and makes you feel whatever the song's about.
Ed Westwick
#100. Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met.
Zachary Cole Smith
