Music Quotes

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried...

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, wor...

...music is the key to life

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason...

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made enti...

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing...

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to d...

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultat...

Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and lo...

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. Y...

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, b...

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has e...

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooketha...

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic...

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but j...

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better...

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Dor...

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you migh...

But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the...

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that so...

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s...

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I do...

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and ...

I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]

I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood y...

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan A...

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips th...

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapp...

Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he s...

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will...

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d r...

I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd n...

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your hear...

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't thi...

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...

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

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in ti...

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the s...

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music ...

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' wor...

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

Such music", he said. "I'm not religious, but if I were I would say it was like a glimpse into the m...

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of ...

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sound...

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collecti...

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawl...

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-de...

So cry if you need to, but I can't stay to watch you. That's the wrong thing to do. Touch if you nee...

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like ...

Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the note...

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

No; look out for the part where you think you have done with the goblins and they come back,' breath...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intell...

Give me love like her'Cause lately I've been waking up alonePaint splattered teardrops on my shirtTo...

Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first ...

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the new...

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm j...

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher a...

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship th...

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...

Society, you're a crazy breed.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; t...

And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselve...

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...

Music, my rampart and my only one.

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it ...