Music Quotes
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Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.
Bill Kaulitz
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.
Ray J
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.
Bob Mondello
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
Lord Byron
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It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
Arnold Adoff
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For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
Michael Learned
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There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.
Haley Pullos
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We plan to be a significant player in the online music retail arena. The online music business has proven to be viable, with analysts predicting steady growth. We are in an enviable position to capture market share due to our ability to leverage the established brands and built-in customer base of Trans World 's retail stores.
Bob Higgins
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Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
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When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't even know who Ginuwine is.
Aziz Ansari
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I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
Jordin Sparks
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
Robert James Ritchi
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Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
Bonnie Baker
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Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
George Li
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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
Eli Siegel
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin