Music Quotes
Quotes about Music
78 quotes
- “Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have ...” — William Berger
- “Know I don't hate youDon't wanna fight youKnow I'll always love youBut right now I just don't like youCause you took thi...” — Relient K
- “Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group ...” — Dave Brubeck
- “Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good cha...” — Legs Mcneil
- “Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and s...” — Toru Takemitsu
- “I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music busi...” — Randy Travis
- “Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something bet...” — Charles Burney
- “And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welc...” — John Elder Robison
- “I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation...” — Washed Out
- “It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it...” — Gustavo Dudamel
- “I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby...” — Tycho
- “Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids...” — Richie Havens
- “And then she'll know the things I learnedThat really have no value in the end she will surely knowI wasn't born to follo...” — The Byrds
- “Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?” — Arthur Brown
- “The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.” — Ashley Pullo
- “The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.” — Ondjaki
- “The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.” — James Hamilton-paterson
- “I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.” — Bebe Rexha
- “Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.” — Ibi Kaslik
- “Sometimes before it gets betterthe darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet foris behind the trigger.” — Fall Out Boy
- “I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.” — Leann Rimes
- “I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.” — Geri Halliwell
- “Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.” — Bernard Edwards
- “My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.” — Hannah Ware
- “It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.” — Jamie Xx
- “He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.” — Stuart Mclean
- “Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.” — John Fogerty
- “Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.” — Thia Megia
- “Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.” — Sivamani
- “I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.” — Harrison Birtwistle
- “For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.” — Ethan Mordden
- “A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.” — Steven Price
- “Music first and last should sound well should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.” — Thomas Beecham
- “It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.” — Alan Hovhaness
- “Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap!” — Jordan Sonnenblick
- “Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.” — George Szell
- “My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.” — Jon Pardi
- “I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.” — Lita Ford
- “Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky” — The Wanted
- “I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.” — Charli Xcx
- “Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.” — Yahoo Serious
- “I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.” — Joshua Bell
- “Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.” — Gustav Hoist
- “Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.” — Margot Benary-isbert
- “A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.” — Colin Wilson
- “Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.” — Shriram Iyer
- “Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.” — Adam Haslett
- “I won't look back to regret yesterday, we're not handed tomorrow so I'll live for today” — 3 Doors Down
- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” — Beethoven
- “You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!” — Victor L. Wooten