Music Quotes
-
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.
Frankie Ballard
-
House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.
Little Louie Vega
-
I'm kind of inspired by just all different kinds of music.
Børns
-
Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.
Amber Mark
-
Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.
Adnan Sami
-
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
-
I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
Jamie Hince
-
Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.
Chelsea Lankes
-
The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"
Nicki Minaj
-
Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
Alex Winston
-
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
Franz Kafka
-
I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
Jon Batiste
-
All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of R&B. I welcome it.
Ne-Yo
-
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Pablo Casals
-
I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.
Arturo O'Farrill
-
Music was always a part of my life.
Keala Settle
-
I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.
Fred Seibert
-
From Ennio Morricone I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
Sergio Leone
-
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
Jimmy Iovine
-
This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
-
My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.
Meghann Fahy
-
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
Charli XCX
-
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails