Music Quotes

• My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Music
  • Dad

• The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

  

  James Blake
  • Up
  • Music

• If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Powerful

• I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

  

  Claudia Christian
  • Music

• I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Work
  • Listening

• It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Personality
  • Write
  • Easier

• Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Music
  • Free
  • Photography

• Then Nature shaped a poet's heart - a lyreFrom out whose chords the lightest breeze that blowsDrew trembling music.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Nature

• Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • College
  • Rock
  • Star

• The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

  

  will.i.am
  • Different
  • Way
  • Disco

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Creation
  • Dumb
  • Drugs

• I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Music

• The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

  

  Arthur Sullivan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Theatre

• The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Music
  • Introducing

• When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Up
  • America
  • Growing

• The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Music

• Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Divorce

• I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mom

• I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Music
  • Long
  • Bored

• I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.

  

  Matt Schulze
  • Music

• When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Poetry
  • Dance
  • Mysterious

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