Music Quotes

• I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.

  

  Al Kooper
  • Music
  • Started
  • Broadway

• The human element of making music is what's most important.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Important
  • Human Element

• To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Mood
  • Creating
  • Listeners

• I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

  

  EMA
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Emotionally

• The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• 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
  • Music
  • Way
  • Attention

• Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Music
  • School environments
  • Arts programs

• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Found

• Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Future

• When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Car
  • Radio
  • Brainstorm

• I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

  

  Joseph Gatt
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Theater

• But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Connection
  • Performance
  • Voices

• It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Music
  • Silence
  • Meaning

• I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It's like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Music
  • Language
  • Etudes

• Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Music

• I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Forever
  • Social
  • Exciting

• I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.

  

  John Grant
  • Music

• I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Unique

• I became a musician to be free, and freedom means pursuing your musical interests. So if you were tied to be in a band only, that probably would be too restrictive.

  

  Phil Manzanera Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Interests

• Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Classical

• If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Band

• I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

  

  Deradoorian
  • Music
  • Taste
  • Video

• I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Music
  • Together

• I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Think
  • Mean
  • Dark

1

...

653

654

655

656

657

...

666

previous

next