Top 535 Music Quotes

Here we have the best Music Quotes from famous authors such as Suga, Joel Madden, Charles Kennedy, Ice Cube, Trent Reznor. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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Suga
Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think music should be free.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like, ‘I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.

Neeraj Chopra
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Claude Debussy
Soul music is timeless.

I wasn’t really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

Music is the soul of language.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Music should be your escape.

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It’s great. It’s just a lot of fun to write, and it’s wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It’s just great.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius
The sense of jubilee for music and what we’re making is always genuine.

I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches – the lifestyle.

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

Vangelis
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world.

What’s missing from pop music is danger.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Frank Zappa
I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.

21 Savage
Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we’re really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.

I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.

I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.

Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.

I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don’t stress about it. I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Grammy, and I’m OK with that.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Claude Debussy
When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.

Donny Hathaway
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I’d wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn’t even really into jazz that much.

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Miles Davis
Music is a part of my life all the time – on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they’re like extra bonuses.

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence‘s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

When words leave off, music begins.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life – one that requires much professionalism.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

I’m not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything’s gone, music alone shall live on.

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II
Music is the strongest form of magic.

Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.

When Kubrick called me about ‘The Shining,’ it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about ‘The Awakening of Jacob,’ which he did use in ‘The Shining.’

No, I can’t do rap music!

If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.

I write music with an exclamation point!

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.

Music has no language. That’s something I’ve come to believe in even more ever since ‘Kolaveri Di’ happened. I don’t deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Music will save the world.

Pablo Casals
Nothing can ever be wrong about music.

Duane Allman
He has Van Gogh‘s ear for music.

Billy Wilder
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

A J McLean
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.

Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.

All I do is play music and golf – which one do you want me to give up?

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.

Suga
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

My music is evidence of my soul‘s will to live.

Charles Mingus
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille
Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

I don’t like to talk about typical things in my music – my music is more about real life situations.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Frank Zappa
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Frank Zappa
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

Stephen Marley
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Change is the only constant, whether it’s in music, culture, dance or fashion.

Sometimes it’s hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

Future
Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we’d be playing in church, we’d be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Johann Sebastian Bach
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.

I’m not into music – the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Rhythm was a very strong element in KVM’s music. He used to be called Udukkadi Mannan, because of his wide use of percussion instruments, which included ghata sanjari.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach
I like music that expresses what I think.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I’m always working on myself, and my music is the same.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night – without phone calls disturbing me.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Live music is proof that there’s some things the Internet can’t kill. In our lifetime, we’re going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won’t be one of them.

Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

My audience went, ‘Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?’ And then they went, ‘Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.’ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Love is a friendship set to music.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I don’t want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Michelle Branch
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.

There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!

Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Mary Webb
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Peabo Bryson
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

The equipment doesn’t matter, it’s the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.

You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Dexter Gordon
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I’ve always loved to paint – I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model – and I’ve being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Choreography is mentally draining, but there’s a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I’m relating to them something that’s quite personal.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

George Thorogood
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It’s the verbal music of the piece.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve
The spiral in a snail‘s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Wine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.

The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I’m left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.

Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae’s consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.

Stephen Marley
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.

Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Donald Fagen
With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

If something happened where I couldn’t write music anymore, it would kill me. It’s not just a job. It’s not just a hobby. It’s why I get up in the morning.

Hans Zimmer
I don’t care what people think of me, unless they think I’m mean or something, but I don’t care if they think I’m like someone else because I know I’m not – I’m a total weirdo. I’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I’m just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.

Music is a part of someone’s soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don’t want anything to do with it.

There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Nat King Cole
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

If I hadn’t had music in my life, it’s quite possible I’d be dead and I’d much rather be alive.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Music is a tool that brings people together.

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.

Sometimes I’ll have sections that I’m not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they’ll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what’s an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

Gotye
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven‘t felt.

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.

Everything I do, I’m always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I’m playing music. When I’m showering, I’ve got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Koko Taylor
I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Climb Every Mountain’ is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think ‘The Sound of Music’ is saccharine, but I think it’s profound. The message, that we can’t accommodate evil, is just as important today.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

Lars Ulrich
I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

I’ve been in the game a long time. I’ve done all sorts of different types of music. From mob music to the G-Funk era.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.

It’s the music that brings us together.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

With the Neal Morse Band, we’re doing progressive music with a harder edge; it’s a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it’s more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

We started out because we love music and dancing.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.

Armin van Buuren
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It’s the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Gottfried Leibniz
Music can change the world because it can change people.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Andres Segovia
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

Charlie Parker
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Luciano Pavarotti
My music has to do with beauty, and it’s intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

I don’t need anybody to market or promote me. If people don’t want to hear this music, then it’s not for them. You cannot please everybody.

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

Suga
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Arturo Toscanini
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?

Ozzy Osbourne
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

When I was 20, I was the hustlerrubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Peabo Bryson
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

I let my team pick what order the records go. I don’t pick my own records. I’m a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won’t let you.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It’s a form of synaesthesia.

There will be no new music until it’s good enough and until I’m ready.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius
There are people who think negatively, and there have been people who react negatively towards BTS music.

Suga
A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

No matter where I’m at in life, whether I’m in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can’t act too hard about that.

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Billy Sheehan
Music really is our daily medicine.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don’t want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Andrew Fletcher
Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That’s what I want to achieve with my music.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Heather Watts
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.

As Bob Marley says, ‘We must carry on.’ So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.

I’ve always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn’t changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It’s a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parentsgarage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Paul Hindemith
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

My love for dance music started when I was a child. Some of my earliest memories are hearing Trance music in the charts and later being heavily influenced by the eclectic tastes of my big brother, he quickly turned me into an avid Drum ‘n’ Bass head even though I was too young to rave.

Becky Hill
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Dexter Gordon
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It’s more outward-looking music than introspective.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn’t do music, the girls that like me wouldn’t like me, but I think I make ugly look good.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

I call architecture frozen music.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

I have to be able to have music at all times – to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.

I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You always gonna feel me. That’s my main thing. When I’m speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall… No! No, it was Stonewall – it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 – oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Zhuangzi
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

Maurice White
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have – one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

Aaron Diehl
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock ‘n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there’s always a new generation with new music.

As a New Yorker you can’t help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Arvo Part
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Joey Ramone
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.

Most gospel music is very vertical. And there’s nothing wrong with that – there’s nothing wrong with, you know, ‘God, we praise you,’ and ‘hallelujah.’ Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people’s everyday life.

DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

John A Logan
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Charlie Parker
I don’t want people to think that I think I’m this great drummer because, to me, I’m just a kid playing drums, and I love music.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Alvar Aalto
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Puerto Rico‘s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

With ‘Location‘ and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that’s something I really love and am blown away by.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.

Soul music is true to its name. It’s music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people’s spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

Old music is the same as new music – it’s just a different way of delivering it.

Jeff Lynne
My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’

John Cage
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine
I enjoy ‘down South’ music.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

Future
I think 42 Dugg is a superstar – he’s got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you’re left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you’re just left with rhythm.

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it’s the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

Rock n’ roll! It’s the music of puberty.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown
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.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it’s important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords. But I also have a thing for bubbly lullaby music. Kind of like ice-cream truck rap.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin
There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.

Gloria Gaynor
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Making a record? You’ve got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it’s the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you’re already 90% there. I always tell young people it’s all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.

I wasn’t thrilled about ‘The Sound Of Music’ – not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn’t my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.

I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.

I love bossa nova. It’s the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Andres Segovia
Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tippett
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival
Me and John Mayer met via a mutual connect, we were by the studio and he asked If I could play him my music. When he heard ‘Under The Influence,’ he asked if he could be a part of the track and of course, we made that happen.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.

The one thing I do know is that I’m the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn’t know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

Rain
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

There’s been times when I’ve been standing in a line at a movie and someone’s hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Les Baxter
I need drama in my life to keep making music.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lesley Garrett
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Lawrence Durrell
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

Life got very good – we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff – drums, a PC, turntables.

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I’m not a man of many words, I’m not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it’s not only about the music.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Virgil Thomson
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked ‘Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.’

Doris Day
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.

It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

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

Charlie Byrd
My liberty is about living. It’s about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn’t reflect that. But now it’s different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians’ breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.

I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.

God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Anthony Braxton
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George Szell
Music is made one of Satan‘s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

The thing is, I make music I like. So it’s just weird if someone says they don’t like it.

Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.

Joey Ramone
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I feel sexy when I’m natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.

Lotte Verbeek
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Claude Debussy
Music has no limits, borders or ages.

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

Vangelis
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Music is my religion.

My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn’t accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music.

I listen to gospel music.

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.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Karen Kain
In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

Armin van Buuren
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Peabo Bryson
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Paul Epworth
Music was never just a hobby for me. I’d pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Andrew Denton
There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Donna Summer
I’m always going to be able to touch fans and get new fans because everybody goes through something everyday. I just keep touching different subjects by talking to the streets and reaching out to my fans by telling them a story instead of just giving them music to listen.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

‘Downward Spiral’ felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I’d explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

When we say ‘Blackpink in your area,’ we’re literally saying we’re in your area with good music, with good energy – we’re here for you.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E Y Harburg
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Pop music will never be low brow.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.

The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it’s not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international.

You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Listen to realness in my music before you judge me.

I really enjoy dancing. When there’s music around, I can’t help it; I start dancing, especially when I’m with friends.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.

Bill Laswell
It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Wopat
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It’s my coping mechanism.

Tessanne Chin
Live music is better.

Music is in my DNA!

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world… it pushed me to think of things bigger than life’s daily routines… to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

I don’t listen to music. I don’t watch television, I don’t read.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Music is a safe kind of high.

I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn’t take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify.

I’m thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We’ll call it something like ‘Two Music Boys.’

Josh Dun
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful. Artistically I’m not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I’m not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It’s not just entertainment. There’s an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann
If you’re only a fan of the old music, that music’s gonna wind up sounding even older.