Music Quotes
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There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
Boyd Norton
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It doesn't bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I've ever been in or done and says, 'Hey, man, I really like your music. I've never heard of you.' That doesn't bother me at all.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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Music isn't only a profession.
Jose Carreras
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I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.
Leon Russell
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
Dierks Bentley
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
Nicholson Baker
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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
Haruki Murakami
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Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
Elvis Costello
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
Martin Luther