Your Music Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

Jon Foreman

#4. What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Andrew Bird

#5. Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"
I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?

Tara Kelly

#6. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.

Fisher Amelie

#7. You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Erol Alkan

#8. Any requests?" he asked.
"Take off your pants."
He grinned at me over his shoulder. "I meant music.

Melanie Harlow

#9. You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

Viswanathan Anand

#10. It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Shelby Lynne

#11. Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS!

John Green

#12. Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

Nicholas Hope

#13. As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum

#14. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

Billy Sherwood

#15. One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.

Mandisa

#16. Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Ezra Taft Benson

#17. Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone

Andy Biersack

#18. Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too.

Nathan Followill

#19. Hope you don't mind my taste in music. I like a little backbeat when I launch. (Devyn)
Just wait until you're in battle with him. That shit'll make your ears bleed. (Sway)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Khalil Gibran

#21. Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Peggy Lee

#22. Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Michael Franti

#23. I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Jerry Garcia

#24. When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

Wynonna Judd

#25. If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

Tom Waits

#26. While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

Miles Zuniga

#27. I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#28. If you're going to be a musician's girlfriend, you have to know that your man will always love his bandmates in a way you can't even touch, because they are the guys who help him create music. You can only help him create a living human being, with your dumb uterus.

Julie Klausner

#29. Music was powerful in its own right, but when it reflected your mood and spoke to your heart, it could be therapeutic and downright empowering.

Laurie Olerich

#30. You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.

Robert Adams

#31. The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Steve Earle

#32. I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

Henry Rollins

#33. In silence, I hear the music of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

Duane Allman

#35. best friends just don't leave your side

Blink-182

#36. The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

Frank Iero

#37. Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

Sevyn Streeter

#38. I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#39. Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

Guru Nanak

#40. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.

Sheryl G. Feinstein

#41. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#42. Play your music whether you have audience or not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. You love your music."
"I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.

Jennifer Echols

#44. Your mistakes aren't learning experiences ... if you aren't learning from them.

Loren Weisman

#45. I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Darren Hayes

#46. When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.

Amit Ray

#47. It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.

Toby Lightman

#48. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

#49. Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

Vanessa L. Williams

#50. With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Marketa Irglova

#51. You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

Christian Kane

#52. You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Aaron Eckhart

#53. Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body ... show your personality as much as possible.

Billy Idol

#54. I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Tracy Chapman

#55. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

#56. The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

Robin Marantz Henig

#57. Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Al Jarreau

#58. Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

David Nail

#59. Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Ezra Taft Benson

#60. I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Ian Jackson

#61. Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde

#62. Did you know your dancing is atrocious? I seriously think there is something wrong with your inner ear. No other human moves so unnaturally to music.

Ashlan Thomas

#63. I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

Gretchen Wilson

#64. There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.

Brandi Carlile

#65. Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

Jens Lekman

#66. Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.

Tony Grisoni

#67. When you listen with your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.

John O'Donohue

#68. I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.

Matt Cameron

#69. Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Robert Bolt

#70. When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Elton John

#71. Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

Florence Welch

#72. It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

Jim Jarmusch

#73. You can tell by the clothes Viki wears that music comes first in her life.

Randolph Randy Camp

#74. I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

#75. If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.

Nicky Wire

#76. Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Charlie Parker

#77. My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Romany Malco

#78. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

John Lennon

#79. The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.

Soulja Boy

#80. Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Israelmore Ayivor

#81. Your cadence is your music.

William Shatner

#82. A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,

Tom Morello

#83. There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

Andrew Bird

#84. To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

Andre Benjamin

#85. Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.

Ted Hughes

#86. Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Dave Grohl

#87. There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Grimes

#88. Music is not just the black dots on the white paper --
it's what happens when those black dots go into your heart, and come out again.

Phil Smith

#89. It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.

Jenny Han

#90. They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.

Trevor D. Richardson

#91. You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

Richard Patrick

#92. The best music for her was always the stuff you could relate to, the stuff that spoke directly to you and twisted and knotted itself so far into your life you couldn't tell where art ended and reality began.

Stephen Emond

#93. When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.

Faye Kellerman

#94. Where is your boy tonight, I hope he is a gentleman. Maybe he won't find out what I know, you were the last good thing about this part of town.

Fall Out Boy

#95. Come on get higher,
Loosen my lips ...
Faith and desire and the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard,
and drown me in love ..

Matt Nathanson

#96. Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

Paul McCartney

#97. Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Chinua Achebe

#98. Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

John Dryden

#99. Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.

Abderrahmane Sissako

#100. I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.

Dito Montiel