Music Quotes
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I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
Jack White The White Stripes
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
Barry S. Strauss
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
John Roger Stephens
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
Ansel Adams
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.
Bradford Cox
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Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.
G-Dragon
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I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
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I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.
Ella Leya
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Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.
William Julius Mickle
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
Anton Webern
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Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.
Steve Lukather Toto
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That was against the rules. We grew up in a bubble. We hardly heard music other than what we heard in church. Occasionally we'd get to listen to oldies. That was considered wholesome, I guess.
Nathan Followill
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I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
Eef Barzelay
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
SZA