Music Quotes
Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.
Bryce Dessner
The National
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy
Rabindranath Tagore
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.
Yehudi Menuhin
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Geddy Lee Weinrib
Rush
When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.
Dmitry Medvedev
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.
Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
Brian Michael Bendis
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
Plato
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.
Andrew Bazzi
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
Alfredo Kraus
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
I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.
Jenny Lewis
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.
Lauren Jauregui
Fifth Harmony
I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.
Alessia Cara
