Music Quotes
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
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Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
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I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.
Shad Gregory Moss
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It’s like my greatest accomplishment in life so far, and I haven’t committed myself to anything for as long as I’ve committed myself to music, to the band and you know we’ve been through so many trials and tribulations and yet that didn’t break it, you know?
Alisa Xayalith
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You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
Danny Boyle
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick
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How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.
Kevin Parker
Tame Impala
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
Yoko Ono
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
Jon Secada
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Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.
Donny Osmond
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I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.
Dave Sitek
Jane's Addiction
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I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
David Amram
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed