Music Quotes

"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 don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read."

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

"Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things."

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab."

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

"If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz."

"Folk music is a bunch of fat people."

"I don't intend to stop making music."

"I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened."

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

"I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter."

"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 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."

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"

"Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."

"That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive."

"Music for me, it demands full concentration."

"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

"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."

"I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music."

"I've always just wanted to make people feel something with my music - whether it makes you want to laugh, cry or drink a beer."

"I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties."

"My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

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

"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."

"I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!"

"I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do."

"Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied."

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

"My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over."

"A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music."

"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."

"Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better."

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

"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."

"One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise."

"Soul music is timeless."

"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."

"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."

"I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans."

"When words leave off, music begins."