Music Quotes
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I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
Susanne Langer
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As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.
Joe Elliott
Def Leppard
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I like Bejoy's style of movie making, and the music is always so good in all his movies.
Harshvardhan Rane
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'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.
Neil Farber
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I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
Paul Elmer More
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If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
Lewis Capaldi
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.
Ryan Adams
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Bill Gates
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
Brian Chippendale
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I like alternative music, so I like to hear new bands.
Reiko Aylesworth
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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
Cass McCombs
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It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
John Ruskin
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
Ethan Hawke
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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.
Willy Mason
