Music Quotes
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.
Daniel Levitin
I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.
Jay IDK
I think we make the music that we make. Yes, we are aware of music climate, and we are all avid fans of listening, collecting and discovering music.
Nathan Connolly
Snow Patrol
Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
John Anthony Frusciante
Ataxia
I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
Queen Latifah
We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
Alicia Keys
One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.
Bear McCreary
I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.
Cold Cave
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
Victor Wooten
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
Lisa Marie Presley
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
Glen Campbell
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.
James Blake
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Johnny Otis
I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.
Kurt Vile
