Music Quotes
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When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
Eric San
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My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
Sufjan Stevens
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
Raheem DeVaughn
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
Rene Auberjonois
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
Brett Dennen
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
John Ruskin
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I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.
Asher Monroe
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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Horace
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I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.
Tones and I
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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...a good poem contains both meaning and music.
Eve Merriam
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Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
Eyvind Kang
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There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.
Nick Fradiani
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
Michael Jackson
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O Music! sphere-descended maid, / Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
William Collins
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When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.
Nicholas Jarecki
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
Plato
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
Mike Watt