Music Is famous quotes
05-21-2025
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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
-- Agnes Obel -
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
-- Alan Jackson -
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
-- Alban Berg -
Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
-- Albert Collins -
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
-- Alex Van Halen -
I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
-- Amy Grant -
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
-- Amy Jo Johnson -
Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!
-- Amy Lee -
Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...
-- Amy Winehouse -
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
-- Andrew Bird -
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.
-- Anne Frasier -
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
-- Annie Lennox -
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
-- Anthony Braxton -
Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.
-- Ariana Grande -
I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
-- Ariel Pink -
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
-- Arnold Schoenberg -
Great music is better than it can be performed.
-- Artur Schnabel -
Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!
-- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli -
Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
-- Austin Carlile -
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
-- B. F. Skinner -
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
-- Barry Manilow -
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
-- Betty Who -
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
-- Bill Haley -
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
-- Billy Joel -
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
-- Billy Sheehan -
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
-- Bob Geldof -
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
-- Bob Geldof -
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
-- Bob Weir -
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.
-- Bobby Hutcherson -
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.
-- Boethius -
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
-- Boethius -
Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody
-- Bradley Nowell -
Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
-- Brian Bonsall -
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
-- Brian Eno -
Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
-- Brian Molko -
There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.
-- Brigham Young -
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
-- Burning Spear -
Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.
-- Carl Nielsen -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
-- Carla Bley -
I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.
-- Carrie Underwood -
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
-- Carter Burwell -
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
-- Casey Kasem -
Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
-- Charles Ives -
My music is evidence of my souls will to live.
-- Charles Mingus -
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.
-- Charles Rosen -
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
-- Charlie Parker -
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
-- Chuck D -
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
-- Chuck Mangione -
The life of music is bigger than all of us.
-- Cindy Blackman -
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
-- Claudio Monteverdi -
As a musician usually music is your way out.
-- Damon Albarn -
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
-- Dave Attell -
The human element of making music is what's most important.
-- Dave Grohl -
To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
-- Dave Haywood -
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
-- David Byrne -
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
-- David Guetta -
Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.
-- David James Duncan -
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
-- David Johansen -
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-- David Levithan -
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.
-- David Sanborn -
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
-- Debbie Harry -
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
-- Debby Ryan -
Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
-- Dionne Warwick -
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.
-- DJ Jazzy Jeff -
I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
-- Duffy -
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
-- Ed Westwick -
To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people
-- Eddy Grant -
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye -
In America, music is more tightly categorized
-- Ednita Nazario -
English music is white - it evades everything.
-- Edward Elgar -
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
-- Elvis Costello
