Music Quotes
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Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.
Quincy Jones
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Music I heard with you was more than music,And bread I broke with you was more than bread;Now that I am without you, all is desolate;All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Conrad Aiken
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When I'm running, I like to listen to dance music and hip-hop.
Dylan Lauren
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.
Ariana Grande
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I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.
Jussi Lehtisalo Circle
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But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
Casey Kasem
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I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
Jenny Lewis
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My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
Aleksey Igudesman
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
Colin Morgan
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I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.
Zeena Parkins
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I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
Clinton Sparks
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Canada can be tough for urban music.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.
Blake Lewis
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We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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Music should always be just a celebration.
Cyril Kamar
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It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
Chick Corea
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Music is the way I talk to people.
Bibi Bourelly
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Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
Sting The Police
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
Martin Luther
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There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
Bryan White
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
Link Wray